Presidential National Character Counts Week Proclamation

Happy CHARACTER COUNTS! Week We hope you take the opportunity this week to reflect on the Six Pillars of Character and how you can improve yourself and your community! Below find both the President’s CHARACTER COUNTS! Week proclamation below: Presidential CHARACTER COUNTS! Week Proclamation Additionally, read the Senate’s CHARACTER COUNTS! Week proclamation here.

COMMENTARY: The President’s Day Un-Celebration — Honoring Not Just the Great, But All U.S. Presidents

If you’re not going to school or work today, it’s because it’s a national holiday. The country used to celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln separately, but in 1971 Richard Nixon and Congress, in order to create a perpetual three-day weekend, merged the two holidays into a brand new one called Presidents Day, to honor all U.S. …