Was/were starting is the past progressive tense of start.
presidents day start to honer all the presidents.
During the 1890s, the US suffered a depression of similar proportions to the one we're in now, which led to the election of more working-class friendly politicians and the start of the Progressive Era.
None
1972
The year 1880.
progressive party
Actually as an official federal holiday, Presidents' Day does not exist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1789
1865
Unfortunately, no. Progressives have continued to push their ideas and agendas, despite the fact that things never happen the way progressives claim that they will. In fact, Barack Obama is the epitome of the failed progressive movement. The century from 1912 to 2011 has demonstrated for anybody whose eyes are open the complete and absolute failure of "progressivism" and its cousins socialism and communism.