may 4, 1876 - In Special Message, objects to informing Congress (as proposed in a House Resolution passed 04/03/1876) each time he is absent from the “seat of Government.” Tartly rejects any notion that the President’s executive duties can only be performed in Washington, DC. He itemizes the absences from Washington of many of his predecessors
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