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I’ve independently thought through this and some ideas exactly like yours (replacing MLK Day with August 28), I’ll get to my very similar but crucially distinct answer to Columbus Day, and other of your ideas I think are terrible.

I figured we should still have a day to honor the Office of the Presidency as an institution, but I’ll concede your premise here. I suppose I like the idea of “America the Beautiful Day” but it needs a much better name, and one that concedes something to the un-PC element.

Join Europe with Labor Day either on May 1 or the Monday falling between April 28 and May 3. (Our Labor Day actually does have a historical basis, commemorating a New York strike in 1882).

Rename Juneteenth to Emancipation Day, the name of already had as an official holiday in several southern states, and have it fall on the Monday between the 16th and 22nd of June (how it became a federal holiday leaves a very bad taste).

Like I said, Civil Rights Remembrance Day on August 28. I guess I approve of your Citizenship Day idea.

Second Monday of October as *American Civilizations Day* to honor all previously existing non-English-speaking civilizations in what would become the United States.

Finally, making Election Day a federal holiday is a TERRIBLE idea!! All the service-sector class workers doing so is intended to help would still be working anyway and it would just be a day off for the professional class.

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I like the idea of Peace With Former Enemies Day but I think it could better be called Reconciliation Day and celebrated on April 3 to commemorate the launch of the Marshall Plan, which seems more in tune with the sentiment behind it.

Can we maybe keep a winter holiday or two? Your new calendar has no holidays in the first three months of the year. Gotta go skiing sometime...

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