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1790: President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in New York City.
Washington began by congratulations on the present "favorable prospects of our public affairs, most notable of which was North Carolina's recent decision to join the federal republic. North Carolina had rejected the Constitution in July 1788 because it lacked a bill of rights. Good deal for Armistead...he depends on The 1st amendment...in the BILGE 1918: In an address before a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson discusses the aims of the United States in WWI and outlines his "14 Points" for achieving a lasting peace in Europe. The peace proposal called for unselfish peace terms from the victorious Allies, the restoration of territories conquered during the war, the right to national self-determination, and the establishment of a postwar world body to resolve future conflict. No one listened...The war resumed in 1939...1940: a message from Benito Mussolini is sent to 'upstart' Adolf Hitler. In the letter, the Duce cautions the Fuhrer against waging war against Britain. asking if it was necessary "to risk all-including the regime-and to sacrifice the flower of German generations." Hitler ignored him and commenced with plans to conquer Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Mussolini, rather than tie Italy's fortune to Germany's-which would mean sharing the spotlight and the spoils of war, invaded Yugoslavia and, in a famously disastrous strategic move, Greece. The expanded, porous underbelly of Europe, with North Africa thrown in, would get very soft indeed! Ultimately, BenitoBBY found himself completely (literally) 'upside-down' in the relationship...CIAO & thanks DUCE!