[paul in cape]

Now that the Old Man In The Mountain fell last year in New Hampshire, perhaps an area in NH can be found for a fitting memorial.

God Bless you, Mr. President.

[tiamat]

Is there any chunk of rock good for a new monument near the origional?


Would save agony to have the close together, if possible...

[Coroner]

FDR???? He was one of the worst presidents we had. His socialistic policies were a disaster. He is the leader of the nanny state movement. At Yalta conference Russias miltary was totally destroyed we could've marched to Moscow and took control, instead FDR gave them half of Europe culminating in 50 years of cold war. FDR was a great American idiot!!!!!

[crz]

Niagara Wisconsin. The bluffs across the river...

[doodles2]

"...infecting most Americans with a renewed sense of optimism>"

Quite a task in this day of pessimism and age denial.

[Graybeard58]

Agree with R.R. but not your other two choices.

[KeyLargo]

"Clinton Rocks" cartoon

http://www.dwtoons.com/Top%20Secret%20New/Clinton%20Rocks.htm

[Mark in the Old South]

Sorry but Kennedy does not belong on the list, FDR okay. Why not just start the fund raising with the two I am sure GWB will earn a place by the time the other two are half way done. Remember it will take decades before you can start carving.

[goodnesswins]

Kennedy wasn't President long enough to make much of a mark, except for getting assasinated, IMHO, and NOT Roosevelt, please.....the LIBS/Clinton's would just LOVE that liberal being annointed. Reagan needs a monument ALL his own. I believe he's one in a million.

[Lion Den Dan]

With a light weight Kenedy and communist F.D. Roosevelt along side a real man and conservative patriot of President Ronald Reagan's stature, the mountain would colaps in shame. Let us put President Reagans bust on its own mountain.

Find someone of Borglum's skill and I pledge $5,000.00 to the project.

[Liberty Valance]

I'm with you if it can be privately funded and built by American citizens.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Eisenhower and Truman would be better choices than Kennedy and Roosevelt -- though you can hardly deny a 4-term (didn't get near finishing the last one) President who led (sometimes shakily, needing a little backbone from Churchill often) through WWII.

Maybe it should be Reagan, Churchill, Thatcher and Ike on the next mountain!

[Arthur McGowan]

FDR, for prolonging the Depression by maintaining the high tariffs he denounced in 1932, and by raising the income tax to astronomical heights, and for destroying thousands of PRIVATE insurance cooperatives by preempting them with Soshcurity and welfare, for beginning the destruction of the Black family through welfare, and for getting us into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. JFK for record-setting levels of adultery and drug use in the White House.

[Tallguy]

Swap Truman for Kennedy. I have problems with FDR, but you'd probably have to include him in order to get a deal done.

[Reagan Man]

If a new Presidential monument is ever built, the likeness of Ronald Reagan would definitely belong on it. Reagan embodied the best qualities of America. Reagan brought a final victory in the Cold War, ending European communism and the Soviet Union, while freeing some 400-500 million people from the iron fist of totalitarianism. Reagan revitalized the American economy and returned a sense of spirit to the American people.

I'd even agree in having FDR part be a part of that national monument. FDR`s steady hand and overall efforts during WWII beat back the forces of fascism, nazism and imperialism. He may not be one of my favorite presidents, but he definitely was one of America's favorite presidents.

OTOH, John Kennedy was not a great President and there are many doubts had he lived, would have been reelected. Besides, for a man that held office for barely 1000 days, there are plenty of national tributes to his memory.

[Military family member]

The so-called "Kennedy legacy," was realized more through the presidency of Johnson, who I believe still holds the record for pushing the most legislation through Congress of any president.

LBJ also is responsible for taking Social Security from it's status of being a separate fund into part of the General Fund.

Kennedy, to me, is the most overrated president in history. Even the Cuban missile crisis is a joke. Granted, he stopped the Soviets for a moment. But that didn't prevent the Soviets from getting arms to Cuba through other means.

Kennedy is a prime example of fluff over substance, personified. Thanks to the Kennedy example, we had to endure eight years of Clinton, and this is the same method being used by John Kerry: "As long as we talk about making America Better, America is better."

How about this? A large statue of Reagan developed from the famous speech "Tear this wall down." As I recall, Reagan pointed at the wall when he said that. Sculpt the statue of Reagan in that pose, and place the Statue so it points toward the piece of the Wall at the Reagan Building in Washington.

To me, that would be a fitting tribute.

[Spotsy]

Rushmore is a work of art that shouldn't be altered or duplicated.

I support finding an original, new way to honor Reagan.

I also support letting a little time pass.

Rushing around, throwing up monuments everywhere, tends to dilute their meaningfulness.

[who knows what evil?]

In the tradition of "tear down that wall", we tear down that odious 'Hollywood' sign, and construct a monument to President Reagan there; where he can 'keep an eye' on those depraved leftists for years to come. Can you imagine Reiner, Baldwin, and the rest of their ilk having to look at that every day for the rest of their lives? ROTF!

[Petronski]

Kennedy? KENNEDY?

[SamAdams76]

Instead of FDR, I would put Winston Churchill up there instead. Granted, Winston Churchill was a Brit (but one of his parents was an American) but that point will be lost over time anyhow as the U.K. is eventually admitted to the United States sometime over the next 50-150 years.

So eventually Winston Churchill will come to be regarded as another great American.

[Libertina]

I would like to see Ronald Reagan added as well.