Sublime

Who was Samuel and why was he important?

For a second secretary, Washington retained David Humphreys, with his agile pen. Now seasoned by diplomatic experience in Paris with Jefferson, Humphreys advised Washington on questions of etiquette and was anointed chamberlain, or master of ceremonies, for the administration. The third team member was Major William Jackson, an orphan from South Ca

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

At the age of thirty-five, Robert Moses had power. And no sooner did he have it than he showed how he was going to use it.

In September 1791 the overtures made by Hamilton, with Washington’s approval, resulted in a major breakthrough in Anglo-American relations, as George III named George Hammond as the first British minister to America. When Hammond and his secretary, Edward Thornton, arrived that autumn, they immediately sensed the amicable disposition of the treasur