In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military ...

Presidents’ Day traces its roots to an 1879 Act of Congress honoring the birthday of America’s first Commander-in-Chief, George Washington. Ironically, what became Presidents’ Day was ...

Americans would celebrate their first president on ... The stock market also closes for Presidents Day. We celebrate Presidents Day to honor some of the United States' greatest presidents ...

Kennedy observed on behalf of 16 million citizen soldiers who fought for the United States in World ... for the seven American presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to the first George Bush, for ...

the first president of the United States. The holiday became popularly known as Presidents Day after 1971 when it was moved as part of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more ...

Is Presidents ... proposal. First in war, first in peace, first with a holiday The federal holiday for Washington started in 1879, but the current date was fixed by law as of 1971. States, of ...

He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king. And yet the United States will once again commemorate its first president on Monday, 293 years after he was born.