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Annual Message to Congress (1790): Request for a "Contingency" Fund
George Washington
1790
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates
Alexander Hamilton & James Madison
1793
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Relations with France, the XYZ Affair
John Adams
1797
Annual Message to Congress (1801): The Barbary States
Thomas Jefferson
1801
The Embargo Act
Thomas Jefferson
1808
War Message
James Madison
1812
Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper
Thomas Jefferson
1814
Annual Message to Congress (1823): The Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe
1823
Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations
James K. Polk
1846
Market Speech
Henry Clay
1847
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