It is February 22nd, the birthday of our first President, George
Washington. I don’t celebrate “President’s Day.” I celebrate the
presidents individually, not the whole gaggle of them at once.
But I most certainly don’t celebrate George Washington, the
father of our country, as just another president. These days,
George Washington has been relegated to that “truth telling guy”
to be seen on the one dollar bill and on TV commercials at the
end of February or that guy lumped in with Lincoln on
“President’s Day.” And that is a shame, indeed, for, without
George Washington, our presidency and nation might have become a
far different place. What made Washington such a giant for our
times as well as his? For one thing, he knew how to act in
public. Back in the 1700’s In the year 1759 a man named William
Robertson wrote a book called The History of Emperor Charles V.
It was a book that some claim was the standard after which
modern historical study and writing has come to be patterned.
Mr. Robertson, who became Prin