(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 ...

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

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

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first ...

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 ...

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

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