UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first president’s administrations.
Washington, who maintained a studied silence ... The framers, still haunted by the specter of King George III, could scarcely have envisioned how their carefully constrained executive would ...
One thing the founders were clear about: We should not have a king. George Washington is often rated the best president in U.S. history. What makes him the “father of his country” was his ...
George Washington was the first president of the ... citizen-voters and is exercised not by a hereditary monarch such as King George III but rather by electoral representation.
Presidents Day has changed dramatically over the years. For some historians, the holiday has lost discernible meaning.