President’s Day Annoucement
US President’s Day Monday, February 18 2008
PRESS RELEASE
On this US President’s Day, Phil Pantana is withdrawing his name as a Republican presidential candidate.
Presidents’ Day is celebrated in February to honor two of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
Legally known as “President’s Day,” the third Monday in February each year is a day for honoring our nation’s first president, George Washington, and our nation’s sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, as well as all the other men who have served as president.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. When he was born, America was not a nation yet. It belonged to England, a country across the ocean. People in America didn’t want to belong to England so they fought a war to become a separate country. George Washington was an American general in the war.
America won the war and picked a new name for itself: The United States of America. George Washington was elected to be its first President.
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12 in 1809. Things were different then. When Abe was a boy, he lived in a log cabin. A log cabin is a small house made out of logs cut from trees. His father cut down the trees and made the cabin.
There were no electric lights in the cabin. Young Abe read books by firelight and drew with charcoal on a shovel. Abe’s family was poor. Often he went barefoot because he didn’t have any shoes.
When Abraham Lincoln grew up, he studied hard and became a lawyer. Then he was elected to be a law-maker. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States.