When all else fails, declare a holiday!
“It’s one of my favorite days,” gushed Sig Rogich, a former United States ambassador to Iceland. Mr. Rogich, a prominent Nordic-American and longtime Republican operative in Las Vegas, said he observed the day with a toast of the Scandinavian spirit Aquavit. “Leif never gets any credit at all for discovering American,” he said. “It’s all Columbus this, Columbus that.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/politics/11proclaim.html?_r=1&fta=y
