The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project

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The Rename Game

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

Friday, March 23, 2001; Page A25

Perhaps we should simply rename ourselves the Ronald Reagan United States of
America.

For the Gipper's supporters, nothing is ever enough. Congress named
Washington National Airport for Reagan, but this month, Rep. Bob Barr
(R-Ga.) threatened federal funding for the area's Metro system because the
train stop at the airport still carries National Airport's old name.
Barr said he would "take steps to tie further and future funding to Metro to
making sure that the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is reflected
correctly on all Metro maps, signs and documents." Making all these changes
would cost the system $400,000. That didn't bother the fiscally conservative
Barr.

Barr has joined but a tiny skirmish in the overall battle plan of the Ronald
Reagan Legacy Project. Grover Norquist, the project's president, recently
had this to say to a congressional committee:
"It is our goal at the Reagan Legacy Project to preserve his legacy
by encouraging governors, state legislators and the general public to become
involved in the process of naming at least one significant landmark or
institution after Reagan in all 50 states and 3,067 counties as well as in
former communist countries. . . . Nationally, we have also begun work on
placing Ronald Reagan's portrait on the $10 bill."

Where have you gone, Alexander Hamilton? The man whose portrait currently
graces our $10 bill was a Founding Father, an author of the Constitution and
the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury secretary, and the prophet who
envisioned a strong national government and the rise of the United States as
an industrial nation. But Hamilton must be a chump compared with the Gipper.

© 2001 The Washington Post Company

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1. For those of you wondering why the 'sudden' interest...

...in putting Reagan on the ten dollar bill...it's not so sudden at all. Like vultures...they've been waiting for Reagan to die so they could push through this crapola while taking advantage of a 'nation in mourning'. (Mourning in America).

[Don_G]

2. Here's A List Of The Thugs

http://www.reaganlegacy.org/about/advisors.htm

[physioex]

3. I can't take credit for this..

But a caller on Randi Rhodes suggested putting him on welfare stamps...Get it Ray-gun on welfare stamps..bwahahahahahaha

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4. Interesting that they don't even care that they're replacing one of...

...this country's FOUNDERS for an image of an 'acting' president. The only way they can rationalize this is through perpetuating the myth that he 'ended the cold war', destroyed the commies and made 'America great again'...all with one hand tied behind his back.