"President’s Day" Is Really George Washington’s Birthday
02/21/2022
George Washington, "First In War, First In Peace, And First In The Hearts Of His Countrymen" if you're normal, or "a person who held human beings in bondage" if you're not, was born on February 22, 1732, according to the Gregorian Calendar. For most of American history, Americans celebrated his birthday around this time. The "President’s Day" thing only started in 1971 under the Nixon Administration, and is a Bad Idea.
In 2001, Tom Tancredo and Roscoe Bartlett introduced legislation to change it back — although as you'll see below it’s still legally Washington’s Birthday; they wanted to force bureaucrats and the President to proclaim it that way — and the late Sam Francis wrote it up here:
- Abolishing America (contd.): The Case of "Presidents' Birthday"
- A Reader Disapproves of "Presidents' Day" …
The modern President’s Day is supposed to honor ALL Presidents, including Millard Fillmore, Rutherford Hayes, both of the President Harrisons, and I supposed even the Bushes.
Since George Washington is so hated by the kind of people who hate America, reviving the recognition of his birthday would be a good idea:
But as I say, it’s really not President’s Day: It’s George Washington’s Birthday:
- What Is Presidents Day?, Snopes, February 17, 2003
The Day That Isn’t, by Peter Hannaford, Spectator.org, February 17, 201 - No lie: It’s Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents Day, by Steve Padilla, LA Times, February 20, 2012
- Presidents' Day: Long-Standing Misnomer, John Christian Hoyle, Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 1998
- It’s George Washington’s Birthday, Not Presidents' Day: We must reclaim "Presidents' Day" for George Washington, who is being overlooked, by Peter Roff, US News, February 16, 2011
- Presidents' Day 2013: Actually, there’s no such thing,by Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, February 18, 2013