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4643. LEVEES, Washington's explanation.—

President Washington [in conversation
with me] went lengthily into the late attacks
on him for levees, &c., and explained
how he had been led into them by the persons
he consulted at New York; and that if he could


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but know what the sense of the public was, he
would most cheerfully conform to it.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 132. Ford ed., i, 216.
(Feb. 1793)
See Ceremony, Etiquette and Forms.