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3210. FRANKLIN (Benjamin), Presidency and.—

Had I had a vote for the Presidentship,
I doubt whether I should not have
withheld it from you, that you might have leisure
to collect and digest the papers you have
written from time to time, and which the
world will expect to be given them.—
To Dr. Franklin. Washington ed. i, 525.
(P. Jan. 1786)


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