By james art 
Congress made Service In 1968, when he adopted the uniformed law on Monday. In an effort to provide three more weekends, she changed the observable days for several holidays and consolidated her birthday for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on a holiday that although the name was never officially given, many people call presidents day.
This deals the incomparable leadership and character of two of the most important leaders of the nation. Given the hyperpartic nature of politics these days, Americans could take great advantage of thinking of Washington and Lincoln’s life.
Moody leadership
If one word describes the cause of the success of these two leaders, it would be something in a shortage among traditional politicians: humility.
After its successful leadership of the Revolutionary War, Washington had a level of power and political capital, with the benefit of few leaders. Many Americans saw him as irreplaceable. This is the type of recipe that gives birth to dictators and tyrants.
However, Washington understood this well. His loyalty was to his nation and his young and fragile constitution. In the end, he made sense of these loyalties, voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term.
This set a precedent, followed by each subsequent president, while Franklin D. Roosevelt did not run for a third term in 1940. Later, Americans amended the Constitution to make Washington a statutory limit.
Washington never looks at power as something to collect, cling to or use as a barter tool. He was not interested in self -promotion or honors. He fully understood how the founding of the nation gave all the power to people.
Reservation of the Union
As for Lincoln, he learned to fully understand the victims who were needed to preserve the freedoms and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Its administration was determined by a series of excruciating solutions that led to the loss of many lives in order to preserve the union and the ultimate slavery. In The address of the GettiburgHe described them as “those who … gave their lives that this nation could live.”
Lincoln had all the reasons to be resentful and to yearn for revenge against those in the southern states who rebelled against their government. And yet, Its second entry address It was a modest petition to God for the forgiveness of the nation’s sins. Instead of anger, he expressed humility.
“With malice to no one with charity for everyone with a firmness on the right, as God gives us the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in to bind the wounds of the nation, to take care of the one that will lead to The battle for his widow and orphan – to do anything that can achieve and appreciate a fair and lasting peace with each other and with all nations, “he said.
The goodbye address of Washington, delivered in 1796, will serve as a suitable text for any adherence to the Presidents Day. He speaks with a great understanding of the need to avoid excessive guerrillas or fractionism, which he sees as dangerous. He warned against political parties. He was not an isolationist, but he warned against “permanent alliances” with other nations.
Of his own presidency, said Washington“When released from this confidence, I will only say that with good intentions I have contributed to the organization and administration of the government, the best efforts that are capable of a very misjudgment.”
Other presidents
Other presidents, of course, did noble things and guided the nation during dangerous times. But no one was as fundamental as Washington and Lincoln. Of course, they were not perfect men. They succeeded despite their imperfections and because of their humility and confidence in God.
The first president of the nation set a tone of work and the collective identity of the nation. The 16th made the preservation of the Union that is not negotiated, and it laid the foundation of modern America, strengthening the end power of the federal government to preserve itself.
In early 1896, a member of the Senate was elected to read the goodbye of Washington on or near the first president’s birthday. Last yearIt was read by Senator Benjamin L. Cardine, D-Maryland.
We regret that this tradition is no wider known. All Americans would take advantage of the hearing of this recital.