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It’s an urban legend! Today is “Washington’s Birthday Observed,” and rightfully so: do we really want to celebrate Grant and Taft and Nixon and Carter on the same day as Washington?
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An emailer:
It’s an urban legend! Today is “Washington’s Birthday Observed,” and rightfully so: do we really want to celebrate Grant and Taft and Nixon and Carter on the same day as Washington?

About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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