Philanthropist David Rubenstein, who has already donated tens of millions of dollars to refurbish the Washington Monument and other icons, is giving $18 million to fix up the Lincoln Memorial.
The National Park Service announced the gift Monday. The money will be used to fix the memorial’s roof, clean the marble and improve accessibility by adding a second elevator. The park service also plans to create 15,000 square feet of visitor space tucked beneath the memorial for exhibits.
Rubenstein said his admiration for Lincoln drew him to this project.
“Lincoln deserves to have his memorial in tip-top shape,” he said in a phone interview.
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4 comments:
You think he will give me 100k?
The Lincoln Memorial needs to be torn down, Blacks should be all over this. Lincolns wife owned slaves! He also only freed them to get rid of them, he was going to send them out of America. The only reason they got to stay was because he was killed, and the Liberals in DC wanted to make the defeated south suffer. They appointed many freed blacks to offices to rule over the white southerners.
That's a lot of AJAX
10:03, enough history has already been torn down and/or demolished, leave it alone already, it's history.
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