(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the nation is ...

Modern presidents have wielded executive orders ... bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington.

President Trump boasted of his accomplishments in his first 43 days in office, comparing the start of his presidency to ...

His address to Congress showed that Republicans will follow their leader anywhere, and that Democrats don’t have one ...

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday. And that’s entirely right and proper, as every ...

Our popular culture and even the law in some states now refer to the holiday as “Presidents Day.” That habit started by effectively combining the mid-February birthdays of George Washington ...

Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers have called the proposed law “un-American” and are supporting a bill that would rename Presidents Day to George Washington’s Birthday. “As we approach ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

Its then-police chief carried an unregistered gun for some 30 days and improperly stored a loaded firearm, an investigation ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.