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Proposal would put Ronald Reagan's face on the $50 bill
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 03, 2010 05:25pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Richard Simon |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reporting from Washington - Ronald Reagan is honored by, among other things, an airport, a freeway, an aircraft carrier and -- ironically for a critic of big government -- one of the biggest federal buildings in Washington.
Now, some of the late president's admirers are launching a new effort to add another honor: printing his likeness on a $50 bill in place of Ulysses S. Grant's.
In polls of presidential scholars, Reagan consistently outranks Grant, said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.), who introduced legislation to make the change.
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