Proposals are being made to put Reagan's portrait on US currency or coin. There are some objections, not only from the Left, but from those who feel it rather premature.
Considering my distaste for Andrew Jackson, who was the political father of the Native American genocide, I'd suggest Reagan should be on the $20, displacing Jackson. But I'd go a step further. There is an American whose contributions changed America at least as much as Reagan, and whose portrait on currency would have far greater impact than Reagan's -- Dr. Martin Luther King.
So I'd make the humble proposal to add King to the $50 (replacing Grant, who was a Presidential failure anyway), and Reagan on the $20, or maybe the other way around.
As much as I like seeing Bir Zeit on Hudson (aka Columbia University) humiliated as much as possible and having Columbian Hamilton (assassinated by Princetonian Aaron Burr) replaced... I much prefer your suggestion for exactly the same reasons.
Posted by: Aaron's Rantblog at June 9, 2004 02:03 AM