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Topic: President’s Day

Joe Biden and The New York Times (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will the NYT ever give Biden credit?

Kirk Swearingen
A Lunar New Year Message From The Bidens (The White House)

Why the Bidens' holiday warmth matters

Ashlie D. Stevens
Washington (José Sarmento de Matos / History)

Washington would have hated Trump

Matthew Rozsa
The simple log cabin in which US president Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. The cabin stands on the Kentucky farm belonging to Lincoln's father and still exists, housed within a museum building. (MPI/Getty Images)

All the presidents' log cabins

Andrew Belonsky
(Getty/Salon)

The Irish helped Lincoln save the Union

Niall O'Dowd
Thomas Jefferson; John Adams (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Adams' secret letters about Jefferson

Daniel L. Mallock
Ted Cruz, Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump, George Washington (AP/Richard Drew/J. Scott Applewhite/Wikimedia/Salon)

Trump & Cruz's holiday lesson

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Rand Paul, George Washington (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Wikimedia/Photo montage by Salon)

America's founding obsession

Andrew M. Schocket
(Dodge)

Presidents' Day: Not a holiday
Neil Young (AP/Jason Decrow)

Noah Berlatsky