Originally Posted by
corky100
...As for Presidents... Would you say any president has done as much for his people as such like as MLK? Nixon or JFK? debatable really... Yet a statue to them seems to be a given at times.
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It may be debatable, but as far as I can tell there is no real statue of either Nixon or JFK in Washington DC.
There are a few busts of both in museums and the like, and JFK has a Performing Arts Center named after him, but just markers at his gravesite in Arlington.
Recent (or at least fairly recent) presidents don't seem to get statues, so it's not realy a given...
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The US does not seem to go for giant, way bigger than life-size statues in the Mao/Stalin tradition except for 100+ year dead presidents. That may be why the design of this one is causing controversy.
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Rapid City, SD - near Mt. rushmore, has a nice collection of presidential statues scattered around their down town area. One for each president cast life size in bronze. It's a neat collection to see -
http://www.visitrapidcity.com/whatto...yofpresidents/
No giant Mao ones here though - got to go the Mt. rushmore for that...
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