Let’s ignore for a moment the debate about when Presidents' Day should occur in the national calendar and acknowledge that today is the actual anniversary of George Washington’s birthday. I wonder what he might think about this great noisy, messy nation that he played such a key role in founding? Would he be surprised to learn that the Louvre Abu Dhabi recently acquired a Gilbert Stuart portrait of him from the Armand Hammer Foundation of Los Angeles? Painted 23 years after