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there’s just one road in the U.S. named for him in his birthplace of Hope, Arkansas, as well as one in, of all places, Kosovo. Highlights for George H.W. Bush in-clude the CIA building and the Houston airport. His son George W. Bush has elementary schools in Cali-POLITICS
Kansas, in 2016, to the installation of a Reagan statue Vegas area—slowed since the 1990s and some efforts—of an Internal Revenue Service building in Wone to get a mountain named for Reagan in the Las fornia, Washington State and Texas in his portfolio.thanks to Norquist and others, from the renaming object to the 40th president’s record on such topics as welfare. But successes small and big still pop up, To be sure, the pace of namings for Reagan has have been stymied by Democrats who such as ichita,
Florida alone now has six roads dedicated to Reagan.minders to governors to issue proclamations dub-memorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall. note out to each of the governors and say, ‘You might bing it Ronald Reagan Day. “Wbirthday, February 6, the Legacy Project sends re-at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin last November to com-this year again,” Norquist told want to do this. You did it last year or the year before, What’s more, every year in the run-up to Reagan’s Newsweeke expect about 40. “We send a
obama biographer david garrow says obama may be as significant and iconic a figure on the left the governor before you did it’ with suggestions on Wdifferences about their post-presidencies that have wordings for their population. They put them out, affected legacy-building efforts. Reagan’s vice presi-and they often get us a copy, which is very nice.”as Reagan was on the right, but there are practical hat Stands in Obama’s Way
Trump to undo just about every accomplishment, and freed up supporters like Norquist to focus on these sorts of naming campaigns, Garrow notes.won, there would’ve been mby explicit efforts by Republican President Donald dent succeeded him, which secured Reagan’s legacy from the Affordable Care Act and the Iran nuclear deal all the way down to what is classified as a veg-etable in public school cafeterias. “If Hillary had Obama, on the other hand, has been followed ore opportunity for
Obama alumni to do that sort of legacy enhance-ment,” Garrow says. “Instead, the Obama alumni have ended up unexpectedly playing defense.”Norquist agrees and also notes that Reagan’s public
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