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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:59 PM Jul 2020

So, Ronald Reagan is supposed to have a statue in this "Garden of Heroes" ...

What about Abraham Lincoln? He saved the US from a bunch of slavery-loving traitors.

What about Theodore Roosevelt? He was the first President who cared about nature and environmentalism.

What about Delano Roosevelt? He safely steered the US through WWII.

What about John F. Kennedy? The US went to the Moon during his administration.

What about Lyndon B. Johnson? He massively expanded civil rights, to which his predecessor JFK had laid the groundwork.

What about Barack Obama? He brought the US back from the second-biggest recession in US-history and he got Osama Bin Laden.

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So, Ronald Reagan is supposed to have a statue in this "Garden of Heroes" ... (Original Post) DetlefK Jul 2020 OP
Includes Rush Limbaugh, Reagan, Scalia, Billy Graham, Henry Clay, Columbus, Laffer, Meese, Rumsfeld Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #1
What about Bonzo? old guy Jul 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author spanone Jul 2020 #3
Grifter's Garden. kairos12 Jul 2020 #4
Nice! Turbineguy Jul 2020 #5
One Nit To Pick ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #6
Hero worship makes people stupid. Iggo Jul 2020 #7

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,960 posts)
1. Includes Rush Limbaugh, Reagan, Scalia, Billy Graham, Henry Clay, Columbus, Laffer, Meese, Rumsfeld
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:02 PM
Jul 2020

Henry Clay the slave owner

(i) The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Christa McAuliffe, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, and Orville and Wilbur Wright.


Rush Limbaugh, Arthur Laffer (trickle down), Miriam Adelson (wife of Sheldon Adelson, both prominent tRump donors), and Edwin Meese were awarded the Presidential Medal by tRump.

Also "opponents of socialism".

(iii) Statues should depict historically significant Americans, as that term is defined in section 7 of this order, who have contributed positively to America throughout our history. Examples include: the Founding Fathers, those who fought for the abolition of slavery or participated in the underground railroad, heroes of the United States Armed Forces, recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor or Presidential Medal of Freedom, scientists and inventors, entrepreneurs, civil rights leaders, missionaries and religious leaders, pioneers and explorers, police officers and firefighters killed or injured in the line of duty, labor leaders, advocates for the poor and disadvantaged, opponents of national socialism or international socialism, former Presidents of the United States and other elected officials, judges and justices, astronauts, authors, intellectuals, artists, and teachers. None will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying.


Caspar Weinberger, Donald Rumsfeld, and Sam Walton got the Medal too.

Christopher Columbus, Junipero Serra, and the Marquis de La Fayette,


Response to DetlefK (Original post)

ProfessorGAC

(64,854 posts)
6. One Nit To Pick
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:33 PM
Jul 2020

We did not go to the moon in JFK's administration. We got started seriously during it, but he died almost 6 years before we got up there.
But, I do like your list!!

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