Dear Retain,
James Thomas Flexner’s book “The Indispensable Man” is required reading for anyone truly interested in our Nation’s founding and Washington’s central role in it. No Freeper with an interest in history, shold miss it.
Thanks for the post.
Excellently written, thanks
President Donald Trump and his able lieutenant, Elon Musk, are the indispensable men of this generation.
Thank you for remembering the Father of Our Country.
His real birthday is February 22nd and I will celebrate it again then.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/presidents-day.html
From the National Archives, George Washington’s Birthday:
“Washington’s Birthday was celebrated on February 22nd until well into the 20th century. However, in 1968 Congress passed the Monday Holiday Law to ‘provide uniform annual observances of certain legal public holidays on Mondays.’ By creating more 3-day weekends, Congress hoped to ‘bring substantial benefits to both the spiritual and economic life of the Nation.’
“One of the provisions of this act changed the observance of Washington’s Birthday from February 22nd to the third Monday in February. Ironically, this guaranteed that the holiday would never be celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday, as the third Monday in February cannot fall any later than February 21.
“Contrary to popular belief, neither Congress nor the President has ever stipulated that the name of the holiday observed as Washington’s Birthday be changed to ‘President’s Day.’”
Justice John Marshall’s eulogy for Washington was special. I especially think a lot of this part:
“Pious, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting. . ..”
(By the way, his “True Birthday” is February 11, 1732. It changed in his lifetime to become February 22nd 1732, when England and the colonies belatedly adopted the Gregorian calendar instead of hte old Julian calendar. Europe had mostly changed over in the 16th and 17th centuries.)
I’ve posted this to you several times over the years, but here it is again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYaDMVbZtU
Thank you for this composition.
Now, we want to hear about NOCS. ;)
From an Army Mustang to a Navy Mustang. I salute you, brother.
Kit
Mike, thanks for the post. I am curious though, how this account of Washington’s emotional speech differs from the speech he gave later to his officers at Fraunces Tavern?