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  • Lawmakers Push to Rename Ellis Island

    06/30/2004 10:51:42 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 22 replies · 332+ views
    Newsmax ^ | 6/30/04
    Bob Hope immigrated to the U.S. when he was 4 years old, and like millions of other would-be Americans, Ellis Island was the first U.S. soil he stepped on. Now, Reps. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., and Elliot Engel, D-N.Y., have written other members of Congress asking them to rename the Ellis Island Immigration Museum as the Bob Hope Memorial Library, reports the Associated Press. "Bob Hope held a special place in his heart for Ellis Island," read the letter, and the renaming would honor Hope's "great contributions to the American people, the American culture and the American dream." While Hope was...