We’re featuring a trailer at Hot Air for a neat film about George Washington by LionHeart FilmWorks.

Blogger/history teacher Betsy Newmark notes that Maryland is unveiling today the original draft of George Washington’s resignation letter to the Continental Congress at the end of the Revolutionary War, and adds:

I often ask my students to picture some other man, whether a different founding father or a different figure from American history as our first president and to ponder what different precedents would have been established if that person had been instead of Washington our first president. Just a few silent moments of reflection is enough to knock it home how fortunate indeed we were that George Washington was there to take the job.

NRO’s symposium on favorite presidents is here.