George Washington is the most popular subject on coins, medals, tokens, paper money and postage stamps in America.
Attempts to eliminate one-dollar bills from circulation, replacing them with coins, have been unsuccessful.
Americans' reluctance to part with their Georges are beyond rational considerations but tap into deep-felt emotions.
To discard one-dollar bills means discarding the metaphorical Father of His Country.
Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, said th.