The art of presidential leadership: George Washington and the Jay Treaty

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

NOT long after the House of Representatives approved funding for the much-maligned and once wildly unpopular Jay Treaty with Great Britain on 30 April 1796, opponents as well as supporters of the measure attributed the remarkable turnabout to the stature of its most prominent backer: President George Washington. As Benjamin Rush, a treaty opponent, recalled to John Adams years later, "no sooner did General Washington ratify it than a majority of our citizens defended it." Likewise, Thomas Jefferson, another opponent, noted the decisiveness of "the Colossus of the President's merits with the ...

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