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If you love Presidents Day, then Washington DC is the place to visit. What better place to spend Presidents Day than in the signature home of the United State presidents, Washington DC.
Indeed, via a trip to DC, one most literally can spend Presidents Day at the home of the president, by taking a tour of the White House. True, one won’t be able to brunch with Barack and Michelle and tour their game room; yet they will be able to take a memorable walk through certain sections of the White House, learning all about the history of this exalted house of the presidents.
Presidents Day also can be enjoyed standing face to face with the presidents themselves, through a visit to presidential monuments. The Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Andrew Jackson Memorial, the extensive newer monument to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, all can be seen up close and personal in Washington DC.
An impressive statue of John F. Kennedy Jr. also can be seen at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; as can a full array of theatrical shows and dance performances. Or one may choose to venture out to Columbia Island in Washington DC, to have a look at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac. And the curious tourist could read and learn more about the presidents at DC learning centers such as the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
And if you happen to plan a Presidents Day festivity in Washington DC, don’t forget to bring along some Presidents Day party supplies. These could include paper plates, cups and bowls emblazoned with the images of presidents (Washington and Lincoln may be the easiest to find), as well as miniature American flags that could be used as favors or cake toppers.
An amazing place to visit for Presidents Day is Washington DC; the true and hallowed home of the presidents.
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* The original version of President's Day was in commemoration of George Washington's birthday in 1796 (the last full year of his presidency).
* George Washington is the first President of the United States of America and one of our founding forefathers who battled the British in the American Revolution and won the freedom of our people for all time. One of the great reasons why Presidents Day is now recognize
* In 1968, legislation (HR 15951) was enacted that affected several federal holidays which include Presidents Day. One of these was Washington's Birthday, the observation of which was shifted to the third Monday in February each year whether or not it fell on the 22nd.
* Later, Abraham Lincoln, also equally revered and born on February 12th, was also included in the celebration which merged into President's Day and was observed on the third Monday of February.
*Another reason for the cause of Presidents Day was this phrase by Nicknamed honest Abe, Lincoln once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave, half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."
* The beginning of Presidents Day was initiated due to The Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States of America from 1861 to 1865. He was born February 12, 1809. The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning.
* On Presidents Day, the most remembered President is this particular president that did a lot for the country which is Lincoln he never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
* Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, forcing its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. The Civil War had begun.
* On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
* On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth.
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