Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“When I was a kid, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday on February 22nd, each year. That officially recognized day honored George Washington, first president and the ‘father of our country,’ began in the 1880s (even before I was born). Then in 1968, someone discovered that Abraham Lincoln also had a February birthday and was apparently feeling slighted. So, what could we do but get the two big guys together for a mega national holiday? Lincoln was a pretty consequential president, after all. But the holiday came to be known as Presidents’ Day … and as the Encyclopedia Brittanica notes, ‘is sometimes understood as a celebration of the birthdays and lives of all U.S. presidents.’ Is this some sort of ‘everyone gets a trophy’ thing?” (02/17/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/02/17/greatest-man-in-the-world/