
A giant U.S. flag was draped from a building in Springfield, Illinois, at Barack Obama’s announcement of candidacy for the U.S. presidency, February 24, 2007 — photo from JeromeProphet
Fly your flag today for Presidents’ Day, one of the score of dates designated by Congress to fly the flag.
Presidents’ Day consolidated two separate events, George Washington’s Birthday and Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. Lincoln and Washington were first and second in a C-SPAN poll of historians, the Second Historians Survey on Presidential Leadership.