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Permanut

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Sat May 13, 2017, 04:15 PM May 2017

This is where we came from

From a letter by President John Adams to Abigail Adams November 2, 1800, upon his moving into the new "President's House" in Washington D.C.:

"Before I end my Letter I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."

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