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National Garden of American Heroes – Mount Rushmore<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The National Garden of American Heroes<\/b>\u00a0is a proposed monument to “great figures of America\u2019s history”, planned through\u00a0executive order\u00a0by President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong>. <\/sup><\/sup>The garden, along with a Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes<\/strong>, was announced on July 3, 2020 at the\u00a0Independence Day\u00a0celebration event at\u00a0Mount Rushmore\u00a0in\u00a0Keystone, South Dakota.<\/strong><\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

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In his speech, Trump described the proposed monument as “a vast outdoor park<\/a> that will feature the statues<\/a> of the greatest Americans to ever live.” The garden is slated to include statues of notable political figures, activists, businesspeople, and pop culture icons.<\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

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National Garden of American Heroes: Lincoln<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The development of the proposed garden will be managed by the Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes<\/strong>, which will allocate funding from the\u00a0United States Department of the Interior<\/a>\u00a0to establish the site. Members of the task force will include chairs of the\u00a0National Endowment for the Arts\u00a0and\u00a0National Endowment<\/strong> for the Humanities, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Administrator of the\u00a0General Services Administration<\/strong>, chair of the\u00a0Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and any additional “officers or employees of any executive department or agency” designated by the president.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After the executive order was signed on July 3, 2020, the task force was granted 60 days to develop preliminary for the plans for the site, including a potential location for the garden.<\/sup>The executive order also states that the garden will open before July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the\u00a0Declaration of Independence<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the statues should be of \u201chistorically significant Americans,\u201d those who \u201cmade substantive historical contributions to the discovery, development, or independence of the future United States\u201d<\/strong> can also be depicted, including Christopher Columbus<\/strong>, Junipero Serra<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What did President Trump say in his speech?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

It was a highly symbolic setting for the speech: Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, features the carved faces of four US presidents, two of whom – George Washington and Thomas Jefferson – were slave-owners.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Trump vowed to protect monuments against what he called a “left-wing cultural revolution”<\/span>
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He condemned those who targeted statues as “angry mobs”. Mr Trump accused protesters of “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children”. “We will not be silenced,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marquis de Lafayette.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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