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George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States on April 30, 1789. Administering the presidential oath on that spring day in New York City was Robert R. Livingston; the same Robert Livingston whose family owned and controlled vast land holdings in the Hudson Valley, including what we now […]
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