George Washington's birthday is today but somewhere along the line they began to call it President's Day taking the focus off the Father of our nation.
I hate him being used for commercials. How long to you have to be deceased before you are subject to disrespect?
This portrait of him in his younger days shows his hand in coat signifing he is a Mason as were many of our presidents.
Within actual minutes of Reagan's election, the hostages were freed.
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| George Washington |
We usually see him with white hair so I really like this portait of him by Charles Wilson Peale.
Washington was famous for warning us not to have foreign entanglements just as God warned the nation of Israel not to make alliances with nor depend on the nations around them for anything. Washington saw nothing but trouble from European involvement.
Washington's farewell address was given in
Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street, New York City and it is still a tavern today that you can visit when in NYC.
It was President James Monroe who made the Monroe Doctrine in which the United States declared the entire lands of North and South America off limits to further colonization as we are all Americans from Canada down to Chile. It's goal was to prevent European interference most notably England and France who tried again and again to undermne the US as in 1812 when the British burned down the capital and the Civil War where they determined to break up the union to make us easier pickings.
By the way it was Russia under Tzar Alexander II, whose Baltic and Pacific fleets came to guard New York City and San Francisco from bombardment by the south. Our relations with Russia at the time were solid! At the time Russia's navy was one of the most powerful in the world and their weapons, made in Tennessee, were the top of the line. They threated to wipe out the south if they fired and frankly they could have.
NYC gave the Russian navy a "ticker tape" style parade down 5th Avenue and welcomed them with open arms. They helped save the USA from being dismantled.
But, if we are going to say Presidents Day.... I will take the time to also honor President James Earl Carter, Jr., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his great humanitarian acts. A man who brokered the Camp David Accords , the Panama Canal treaty, advancements in Civil rights but who found he was stymied in his attempts to free American hostages in Iran because of the great evil in Swampington D.C. Republicans backing Reagan worked hand in glove with the Ayatollah Khomeini, who despised the deeply Christian Carter to hinder recovery of the hostages and to give Carter a black eye. (to their eternal shame),
A man of deep principles and faith, he was faithrul to one woman all his married life while so many of our presidents were serial divocees or adulterers. Jimmy took his vows seriously and he and Rosalyn had a long happy life together.
His Nobel Peace Prize came as a result of hands on humanitarianism,
He was down in the trenches building homes for the poor himself, it was not just talk \
He never used foul language nor mocked his political rivals as some do in an unmanly and blatant way.
While many of our presidents in these latter years admit they've never read the bible, Jimmy read it daily and was a Baptist Sunday School teacher and never failed to attend church during his life time and during his presidency
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| Inside Fraunces Tavern from their Website |
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| Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl St. New York City, New York. |
