Bench Memos

Here’s to George Washington

I see that John Miller has linked to a Snopes entry correcting the common mistake (including mine just below) that today is “Presidents’ Day.” It seems that the official title is still, thank goodness, “Washington’s Birthday.” More can be found here on the curious history of this business. Now we just have to get the calendar printers to get it right.

Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, a senior contributing editor of Public Discourse, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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