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Ridgewood NJ, Presidents Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February each year, it is considered a day to recognize all presidents, past and present. Traditionally it a celebration of certain key presidents, such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Presidents Day began as an unofficial holiday on George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday in 1800, just two months after his death but it didn’t become a federal holiday until 1879, when then President Rutherford B. Hayes signed it into law. Presidents Day became a national bank holiday six years later .Presidents day was the first bank holiday to celebrate an individual and it joined other bank holidays ; Christmas, New Year’s, Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
In 1971 that the Uniform Monday Holiday Act was enacted, to create more three-day weekends for workers and moved the day of observance to the third Monday in February.The act also combined Washington’s birthday with Abraham Lincoln’s (Feb. 12).
Lincoln’s actual birthday is still a state holiday in Illinois, and U.S. government itself still calls the third Monday in February Washington’s Birthday. Interesting side note both William Henry Harrison and Ronald Reagan were also born in February.
The Village of Ridgewood plays it safe by closing the Village Hall and all Village Departments on February 12th and February 15th in observance of Lincoln’s Birthday and then Presidents’ Day.
Some of the Ridgewood blog’s Favorite Presidents
George Washington was a leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and was the first to become U.S. president. Called the Father of the Country and the English Empire’s Greatest Enemy.
Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.First tried to preserve the Union , later won the Civil war.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
As America’s 30th President (1923-1929), Calvin Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts of frugality amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying during the 1920s era. The last true small government President .
Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving “peace through strength” abroad.
The Official Federal holiday today is: “Washington’s Birthday”
(not President’s Day)
William Henry Harrison got a lot accomplished in his 30 days as President.
Village Hall celebrated Lincoln’s birthday by taking off that Monday also.
For President’s Day, the Looney Left is not promoting the narrative that Lincoln was a White Supremist and Racist.
Is not, or is now? Because the Great Emancipator’s views on the races is well known, albeit not amongst the general public that still entertains a highly distorted, folksy view of Lincoln, as they do with everything else.
“I have said that the separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation … Such separation, if ever effected at all, must be effected by colonization; and no political party, as such, is now doing anything directly for colonization … Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time favorable to, or at least not against, our interest to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.”
Speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857.
https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-lincoln%3A37386
Does a desire grounded firmly in, as Lincoln puts it, morality and self-interest, to prevent the mixing of races, make him a racist and white supremacist? Interestingly, elsewhere in the speech he cites slavery as number one source of “amalgamation” and next to it the degradation, not elevation, of blacks. Ibid.
Lincoln argues for “human recognition of negro” but acknowledges he doesn’t want one for a wife.
“In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others.” Ibid.
Is this man a racist and a white supremacist? Or is it more complicated than that?
at lest he thought owning them like Democrats was not Ok
the fundamental tenant of the Democratic Party is Slavery and Racism
Why must there always be comment about village hall being closed? They along with our employees in the sanitation department deserve holidays off like the rest of us. Just saying.