[The Great RJ]

There a lot of us in the Mt. Rushmore state that agree Reagan's image should be added to the Shrine of Democracy. P

[The Great RJ]

There a lot of us in the Mt. Rushmore state that agree Reagan's image should be added to the Shrine of Democracy.

[ScottFromSpokane]

I hesitate to post this, but here goes anyway:

Mount Rushmore is not simply a national monument, it's also a work or art, by Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln. It would no more be appropriate to add Reagan to Mount Rushmore than it would be to, say, paint Linda Vester into the Mona Lisa.

I say we find Reagan his own mountain. If it'll bring the Dems in on the deal, we can put FDR up there too--the American Presidents who defeated the great homicidal ideologies of the 20th Century.

[ClearCase_guy]

perhaps the greatest of the post-war epoch

My God! No one else even comes close!!! "Perhaps" indeed!!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[Fishrrman]

I would like to suggest a "Reagan Memorial" in Washington, D.C., although it may be a bit early yet for consideration of such an idea.

President Reagan was as important an advocate for human freedom as any public figure in American history. Freedom not only for Americans (of course), but freedom for people EVERYwhere.

And not merely an advocate, his actions as president produced results, as those in Eastern Europe and the [former] Soviet Union will attest.

Yet, no one has broached the subject of a Reagan Memorial of Freedom.

Am I the first?

- John

[Smartass]

[Mo1]

PING

[montag813]

Reagan never really received his due in this country, both for substantive and for stylistic reasons

But Clinton did, despite a complete absence of legislative achievement (substantive), and despite his oral servicings by am ugly fat chick in the Oval Office (stylistic).

[TOUGH STOUGH]

Reagan is indeed worthy of Mount Rushmore!

Whether or not it would ruin the artistic integrity of the original is a different issue.

[mathluv]

'The presidents were selected on the basis of what each symbolized. George Washington represents the struggle for independence, Thomas Jefferson the idea of government by the people. Abraham Lincoln for his ideas on equality and the permanent union of the states, and Theodore Roosevelt for the 20th century role of the United States in world affairs. '< p>I found this in a search. I thought that I had been told by a guide there that each President was there for what they added to the country. Washington for the founding of the country, Jefferson for the Louisiana Purchase, Lincoln for maintaining the country, and Teddy for the Panama Canal.

[TXBSAFH]

Sadly they can not put anymore faces on Mt. Rushmore, there is not anymore suitable rock on the mountain for a scupture of this size.

[Petronski]

I think putting Reagan on Rushmore should be an automatic, no-doubt kind of decision.

On the other hand, I understand there is not enough stable rock remaining. I hope that's not true.