President George Washington to the U.S. Senate

George Washington

1789

Annual Message to Congress (1790): Request for a "Contingency" Fund

George Washington

1790

Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to William Short

Thomas Jefferson

1793

The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates

Alexander Hamilton & James Madison

1793

Views on the French Revolution

Alexander Hamilton

1794

Message to the House of Representatives

George Washington

1796

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

Senator Timothy Pickering to President Thomas Jefferson

Timothy Pickering

1806

The Embargo Act

Thomas Jefferson

1808