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2458. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1796), Vice-Presidency. ‐ [continued].

There is nothing I so
anxiously hope as that my name may come out
either second or third. These would be indifferent
to me; as the last would leave me at
home the whole year, and the other two-thirds
of it.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 150. Ford ed., vii, 91.
(M. Dec. 1796)