presidents day

Mount Rushmore National Monument near Keystone, South Dakota on July 26, 2013.

^{Scott S. Powell
February 19, 2024
Citizen Leadership}

Washington And Lincoln Wouldn’t Recognize America Today

_{Scott S. Powell
February 19, 2024
Citizen Leadership}

America is being assaulted on many more fronts than at the time of the American War of Independence. Our challenge today is one of commitment. The founders were willing to give their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish independence and create a new nation. We are called to do no less to save this country. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
February 21, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Washington and Lincoln Call the American People to Reclaim their Rights from Government

_{Scott S. Powell
February 21, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

With the shock and awakening of Americans that the freedoms, rights, and opportunities they had taken for granted for generations have been brazenly stripped away in the last few years, this President’s Day 2022 may well be one of our most significant holidays. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
February 18, 2019
Citizen Leadership}

Presidents Day: Washington and Lincoln as Relevant Today as Ever

_{Scott S. Powell
February 18, 2019
Citizen Leadership}

Presidents Day is unique among American holidays in providing the opportunity to remember and appreciate why George Washington and Abraham Lincoln — whose birthdays fall in February — were the two greatest U.S. presidents. While Washington was the founding father of the United States, Lincoln would later save the nation from division and collapse — bringing an end to the Civil War and the scourge of slavery. In short, Lincoln saved the republic that Washington made possible. Read More ›

^{John R. Miller
February 19, 2011
Citizen Leadership}

The Original American Idol

_{John R. Miller
February 19, 2011
Citizen Leadership}

Today we merge Washington’s birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales. But it was not always so. Americans in past centuries celebrated Washington’s birthday as a winter version of the Fourth of July. Americans in Cambridge, Williamsburg, Richmond and Milton, Conn., were already celebrating Washington’s birthday even before the end of Read More ›