During his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to run the federal government as though it were a business.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided ... decried it as an invitation to tyranny. Washington, who maintained a studied silence from the president's chair, was the solution.

President Trump boasted of his accomplishments in his first 43 days in office, comparing the start of his presidency to ...

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

Officially known as Washington's Birthday, the first federal holiday of the year was originally meant to honor the country's first president, George Washington. According to the then-used Julian ...

(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 US will once ...