. >>> i am amy cass senior fellowt ta hudson institute. on behalf of what so proudly we hail at .org and aie citizenship, i want to welcome you and our viewers around the country courtesy of c-span to this event in honor of washington's birthday. this is one of the series of events and discussions we're sponsoring on the american national calendar. built around selections from the recently published anthology what so proudly we held in story, speech and song. our purpose in the series is to revive interest in and attention to our national holidays seen as important tools often neglected for shaping american identity and encouraging zefk understaci. and we are to talk about the contribution to the nation, and the people who have created and sacrificed so much to have blessings that we enjoy and blessings so familiar that we tend to take them for granted. our national holidays suitably observed can refresh the national memory and unite us as a people. more determined and better able to preserve the blessings of liberty to ourselves and the p

his most lasting legacy, his condition to relinquish power after only two terms in office >> i am amy cass, senior fellow from the hudson inci stcit stci incity tuesday. on behalf of the american citizenship i would like i don't welcome you and our viewers around the country courtesy of c-span to this event in honor of washington's birthday. this is one of a series of events and discussions we are sponsoring on the american national calendar. built around selections from our recently publishes anthology, what so proudly we hail the americans' soul and story speech and song. our purpose in this series is to revive interest in and attention to our national holidays seen as important tools often neglected for shaping american identity and encouraging civic understanding and national attachment. through our national holidays we are summoned to remember, honor, celebrate and express gratitude for our existence as a nation and the people who have contributed and sacrificed so much to create and preserve the republic whose blessings we enjoy. blessings so familiar that we tend to take them for gr