On September 9, 1792 Secretary of State Jefferson wrote President Washington that "when I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature." The letter was a long one and many pages later he stressed that : "With the affairs of the legislature, as I never did intermeddle, so I certainly shall not now begin." Unfortunately, this statement was at variance with his earlier acknowledgment in the same letter that there had been one occasion -- and one only -- when he had indeed "intermeddled" because he "was duped into [so doing] by the Secretary of the treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life,
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