Showing posts with label George Washington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Washington. Show all posts
Monday, February 16, 2026

George W. on George W.

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Many   posts  have   discussed   the  presidency . President George W. Bush at In Pursuit: Few qualities have inspired me more than Washingt...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Presidents and the Press: The Early Years

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  relationship  between  presidents  and the  press .  Todd Andrlik at Mount Vernon: Washington read new...
Monday, July 14, 2025

James Madison, Majority Leader

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 At AEI, Jay Cost writes that Madison was effectively the first House majority leader . To be clear, Madison never held that title in the s...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Decorating the White House

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  Carolina A. Miranda at WP: Every U.S. president has adapted the Oval Office to suit his taste. Franklin Delano Roosevelt placed an animal ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Constitution, BIrthright Citizenship, and the Oath of Office

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Many   posts  have  discussed   oaths of office . Yesterday, Trump swore to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the Unit...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Founders and Current Events

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  Founding . David Frum at The Atlantic : Two political myths inspired the dreams and haunted the nightm...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Christmas 1983

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President Reagan, December 24, 1983 My fellow Americans: Like so many of your homes, the White House is brimming with greens, colorful decor...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Fake Washington, Fake Jefferson, Fake Henry

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Many posts  have discussed  fake quotations  from  Lincoln ,  Jefferson ,  Tocqueville , and  others . John Fea at Current:   Here   is Kyle...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

The Peaceful Transfer of Power

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 Liz Cheney in the 1/6 report: At the heart of our Republic is the guarantee of the peaceful transfer of power. Members of Congress are remi...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

George Washington and Mass Inoculation

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Amy Lynn Filsinger,  & Raymond Dwek at the Library of Congress : George Washington 's military genius is undisputed. Yet ...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The People Rate the Presidents

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 Matthew Smith at YouGov: The respective excellence of US presidents is always being debated . Many academics have put together rankings ov...
Friday, April 2, 2021

A Republican Executive

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 At AEI, Joseph M. Bessette and Gary J. Schmitt have a report titled "Crafting a Republican Executive: The Presidency and the Constitut...
Friday, December 25, 2020

The Crossing

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 From the National Park Service: On December 25 , 1776, General George Washington and a small army of 2400 men crossed the Delaware River a...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving and Constitutional Gratitude

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 Yuval Levin and Adam J. White at National Review : George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789 , like so many other aspects of hi...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Congress and Thanksgiving Day

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From the National Archives: On September 28, 1789, just before leaving for recess, the first Federal Congress passed a resolution asking t...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

George Washington on Immigration

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Many posts have discussed immigration to the United States . From George Washington to Joshua Holmes, 2 December 1783 The bosom of Am...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

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Sam Wineburg at Zocalo Public Square: George Washington issued what might be considered the first executive order. To commemorate the en...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Cost of the American Revolution

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Jay Cost at National Review : On an absolute scale, the American Revolution was a relatively modest affair. However, judged in light of th...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Thanksgiving Proclamations

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Richard Samuelson at Law and Liberty: George Washington set the tone for the office in many ways, none more so than in his Thanksgiving Pr...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Purple Heart Day

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A release from the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A Each year on August 7th, the nation pauses to remember and pay homage t...