Posted on 04/29/2021 10:44:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A petition has been created and signed by more than 43,000 people urging First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to "restore the Rose Garden" at the White House.
According to the petition, former First Lady Melania Trump had cherry trees and other foliage removed from the garden. Creators and signers of the petition want the garden to be restored to what it looked like after former First Lady Jackie Kennedy took over the project in the early 1960s.
Jackie Kennedy revitalized the Rose Garden after visiting Europe with former President Kennedy and noting that the White House did not have gardens on par with those in England and France, according to the petition.
Former First Lady and immediate successor to Jackie Kennedy First Lady Lady Bird Johnson even renamed the East Garden as "Jacqueline Kennedy Garden" in 1965.
"Jackie's legacy was ripped away from Americans who remembered all that the Kennedy's meant to us," the petition's website states. "We want Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff to take this on and restore the Rose Garden to Jackie's original design."
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IIRC, before Melania re-did things, there were all sorts of different types of flowers instead of roses. So she put it back to how it was meant to be (roses) and put in the handicap access.
Maybe Joe is behind the whole “back to the way the Kennedy’s did things”.
“Come on man. If she can have the garden like the Kennedy’s - then I can have me some movie stars on the side. Just make sure they are under 12 years old.”
(!)(D)...........................
I beg your pardon.
About what?.......................
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