Which is not to say things will go smoothly from here.
All may indeed go smoothly over the next two weeks.
"And my people will go with you both to make sure everything goes smoothly."
The answer to your first question is no, things did not go smoothly.
The first few years of his military life went smoothly.
For the first two or three years everything went smoothly.
Everything went smoothly with the staff on the first day also.
If everything went smoothly, I'd be put on my own in a few weeks.
I wanted everything to go smoothly over the next two days.
The games went smoothly and Chicago won three of four.