Monday, 06 Jul 2020 07:03 AM MYT
Coming just four months before November’s presidential election, the proposal reinforces the image of a president who has given up any pretense of uniting the country, instead choosing to play one voting bloc against another. To Julian Zelizer, a professor of political history at Princeton University, Trump’s notion of a National Garden of American Heroes is a purely political ploy.
Trump opposes modernist designs, and a White House statement said the park — its venue yet to be decided — would include only “realistic” and not “abstract” likenesses while paying tribute to historic figures “who made substantive contributions to America’s public life.” To James Grossman, who heads the American Historical Association, “the choices vary from odd to probably inappropriate to provocative,” he toldIn addition to celebrating figures from public and private American life, ranging from political leaders to inventors and sports stars, the White House said the park could include non-Americans who made significant contributions to “the discovery, the development or the independence” of the country.
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