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How Presidents Day has evolved from reverence to retail
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FILE - Phil Bustos of Trinidad, Colo., displays the television set he bought for $29 at a Washington's Birthday sale in Washington, D.C., Feb. 22, 1954. Other bargain hunters waited to get into the packed store during the annual holiday sale. - photo by AP Photo, File
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king. And yet the United States will once again commemorate its first president on Monday, 293 years after he was born.