CNN reports that there's a move afoot to replace Franklin Roosevelt's visage on the dime with that of Ronald Reagan. Nancy Reagan, however, does not agree with this move. In her denial of support, she stated that, "When our country chooses to honor a great president such as Franklin Roosevelt by placing his likeness on our currency, it would be wrong to remove him and replace him with another."

Furthermore, Mrs. Reagan noted that she did not think President Reagan would have agreed with this either, and that she hoped the proposed legislation would be pulled.

Two points:
1. What's with the move to name everything after Ronald Reagan? If this keeps happening, the country's going to wind up looking a whole lot like Charleston, West Virginia, where every third or fourth thing you see has Senator Robert C. Byrd's name on it. (Including the local Ku Klux Klan membership roll...) President Reagan has an aircraft carrier, an airport, and lots of other places named for him. From time to time, I get the sneaking feeling that this is some sort of twisted loyalty test for some. Enh.

2. I've got a better idea: Rather than yank Franklin Roosevelt (who, while doing a lot of other things wrong, had the good sense to back Churchill, oppose Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini, and to pick Harry Truman instead of Henry Agard Wallace for VP) I propose we get rid of a really worthless president on the currency of the United States: John F. Kennedy on the half-dollar.

That is, of course, my opinion.

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