From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 July 1798
United States July 2d 1798
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate George Washington of Mount Vernon to be Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of all the Armies raised or to be raised in the United States.
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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