Yesterday, as my wife drove, we got a Kennedy half-dollar in change at a toll booth. As we drove down the road, I gazed at the portrait of Kennedy and wondered what exactly JFK did to deserve to have his portrait alongside Lincoln, Jefferson, FDR and Washington on U.S. coins.
Aside from the Camelot nonsense and assasination sympathy, I could not come up with much.
When Ronald Reagan passes on, he deserves to have his portrait on a U.S. coin and he will have earned the honor.