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It's George W's Birthday (Not President's Day)

In our student and intern residence halls, you will connect with other students from diverse backgrounds. You will exchange ideas, learn more about yourself and others, and build relationships that will last far beyond your college experience. Housing

America’s founders knew that liberty is about more than just securing political freedoms. True liberty requires economic freedom—the ability to profit from our own ideas and labor, to work, produce, consume, own, trade, and invest according to our own choices. Thomas Jefferson underscored that point when he observed that “a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.”

Believing that words are "the essential units on which acivilization rests," The Heritage Foundation has provided a forumfor lectures by public officials, scholars, and policy experts onthe leading issues of the day: a pantheon of the most influentialconservatives in America in the last part of the 20th century andthe first decade of the 21st.

Congress should heed the President's request to end federal fundingfor the Center for Civic Education and remove language thatauthorizes exclusive funding for the CCE from federal law at thenext opportunity. If Congress and the President work to arrest thealarming growth of federal education policy, they can provide avaluable civics lesson for all Americans.