I didn’t note this article by Lee Harris on the “father of our country” yesterday, when it would have been more appropriate (though it still wouldn’t have been his actual birthday), but it’s still certainly worth reading today, or any day. And I wholeheartedly agree with this:

Today we now call it President’s Day, and no longer celebrate Washington’s Birthday. This is a pity. For without the greatness, wisdom, and humanity of our first President, the office of the Presidency would almost certainly have become something radically different from what any of us are familiar with