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Washington’s birthday (also lovingly called Presidents’ Day) is a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as ...
We used to have a holiday for Washington's birthday, which seems altogether fitting. The honor to Washington was somewhat diluted by combining his birthday with that of Abraham Lincoln and calling the ...
Congress turned February 22 — George Washington’s birthday — into a national holiday, but the man himself wanted none of it. Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t summon fanfare, he seeded it.
From the republic’s founding, leaders recoiled at monarchic pomp. Congress turned February 22 — George Washington ’s birthday — into a national holiday, but the man himself wanted none of it.
The birthday party on July 1 was in one of Washington’s showstopping, Gilded Age mansions. And the guest list was maxed out at 120. Maybe some of the well-dressed crowd came because of the luxe ...