Presidents’ Day in the US - February 14, 2024

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1. 0:00The third Monday of February is known as President's Day in the United States.
2. 0:08For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington, on February 22nd.
3. 0:19That was his birthday.
4. 0:21But the date was not a national holiday until 1968.
5. 0:26That year, the U.S.
6. 0:29Congress passed a measure known as the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
7. 0:35The measure meant that some public holidays would always fall on a Monday.
8. 0:42Today, the country honors its first president on the third Monday in February,
9. 0:48and not on Washington's real birthday.
10. 0:51The holiday is now commonly called President's Day.
11. 0:57Many say it also honors Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
12. 1:02The nation's 16th president was born on February 12.
13. 1:08The federal government, however, still recognizes the holiday as Washington's birthday.
14. 1:15The Uniform Monday Holiday Act gives workers a three-day weekend.
15. 1:21It also gives shops and marketers a chance to have special President's Day sales.
16. 1:28In January of 2021, Joe Biden made history when he took the oath of office
17. 1:35as the 46th President of the United States.
18. 1:40At 78 years old, he became the oldest elected president.
19. 1:45The man he beat was the previous record holder,
20. 1:49Donald J. Trump.
21. 1:51He took office at the age of 70 in 2017.
22. 1:56Biden and Trump are leading candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations
23. 2:02for the 2024 presidential race.
24. 2:07They will likely face each other again later this year for the presidency.
25. 2:12presidency. As the first billionaire president, Trump replaced John F.
26. 2:18Kennedy, the 35th president, as the richest man to serve as president.
27. 2:25Kennedy still holds the record for the youngest person to be elected president.
28. 2:31He was 43 when he took office.
29. 2:34Kennedy is also the youngest president to die in office.
30. 2:38He was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
31. 2:45He was 46 years old.
32. 2:49Another presidential assassination put the youngest person in office for the president.
33. 2:55In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt, then the vice president, became president at the age of 42.
34. 3:04He took office after William McKinley, the 25th president, was shot and killed in Buffalo, New York.
35. 3:13The first president to die in office, though, was William Henry Harrison.
36. 3:20The country's ninth president only served 32 days, the shortest time of any president.
37. 3:28Another Roosevelt holds the record for the longest time in office.
38. 3:33Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president.
39. 3:39He held office for 4 ,422 days.
40. 3:44After his death, the 22nd amendment was passed.
41. 3:49It limited a person to two four-year terms as president.
42. 3:55Most Americans know that the two Roosevelts were related, but they may not know exactly how they were related.
43. 4:04Here it goes.
44. 4:06Franklin Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was also his fifth cousin once removed.
45. 4:14And Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, was Eleanor's uncle.
46. 4:20That makes the two presidents distant relatives.
47. 4:24But they were not the first relatives to both serve as president.
48. 4:29That That title belongs to the Adamses.
49. 4:33John Adams was America's second president.
50. 4:36His son, John Quincy Adams, was elected as the nation's sixth president.
51. 4:44The Bushes are the other father-son presidential pair.
52. 4:49George Herbert Walker Bush was elected as the 41st president.
53. 4:54president. His son, George W.
54. 4:57Bush, was the country's 43rd president.
55. 5:01Not everyone can run for president.
56. 5:04The U.S.
57. 5:05Constitution says a person must be at least 35 years old,
58. 5:10a person must also have lived within the United States for at least 14 years,
59. 5:17and they must be a natural born citizen.
60. 5:20But the meaning of natural-born citizen is not exactly clear.
61. 5:27People read the rules in different ways.
62. 5:32By some reasoning, the first natural-born American president was not George Washington or John Adams.
63. 5:40It was Martin Van Buren, the eighth president.
64. 5:43present. He was born in 1782,
65. 5:48six years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
66. 5:54All seven presidents before Van Buren and William Henry Harrison, the ninth president,
67. 6:02technically were not natural-born citizens.
68. 6:06They were born before 1776, when the American states were still British colonies.
69. 6:14I'm Ashley Thompson.