George Washington: More bling than Mitt Romney

Eight presidents were born before 1776 as British subjects–George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and, after Van Buren, William Henry Harrison. 6. Has any President run as the

by CNN As we celebrate President's Day, you probably think you've heard it all about George Washington — the cherry tree, the wooden teeth, crossing the Delaware. But the nation's first president also had an entrepreneurial spirit, and after leaving

One of the reasons we have such a high sense of religious liberty in America is because the man whose birth we celebrate today–George Washington–valued religious liberty as the first of our political institutions. From the beginning of his long

by CNN As we celebrate President's Day, you probably think you've heard it all about George Washington — the cherry tree, the wooden teeth, crossing the Delaware. But the nation's first president also had an entrepreneurial spirit, and after leaving

In fact, there would be none at all if we relied on the technique George Washington used at Mount Vernon, his Virginia estate that's perched on the banks of the Potomac River. His source of ice was the frozen river. Given the warm winter we've had here