Axios<\/a><\/em>: \u201cNo president of the United States or federal government has any business dictating us citizens who our historical heroes should be. This is not Stalin\u2019s Russia. Any American who loves democracy should make sure there is never some official, totalitarian-sounding \u2018National Garden of American Heroes,\u2019 with names forced upon us by the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\nAs it presently stands, the following are the individuals the executive order lists as those who should be recognised in the garden:<\/p>\n
Ansel Adams \nJohn Adams \nSamuel Adams \nMuhammad Ali \nLuis Walter Alvarez \nSusan B. Anthony \nHannah Arendt \nLouis Armstrong \nNeil Armstrong \nCrispus Attucks \nJohn James Audubon \nLauren Bacall \nClara Barton \nTodd Beamer \nAlexander Graham Bell \nRoy Benavidez \nIngrid Bergman \nIrving Berlin \nHumphrey Bogart \nDaniel Boone \nNorman Borlaug \nWilliam Bradford \nHerb Brooks \nKobe Bryant \nWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. \nSitting Bull \nFrank Capra \nAndrew Carnegie \nCharles Carroll John Carroll \nGeorge Washington Carver \nJohnny Cash \nJoshua Chamberlain \nWhittaker Chambers \nJohnny \u201cAppleseed\u201d Chapman \nRay Charles \nJulia Child \nGordon Chung-Hoon \nWilliam Clark, Henry Clay \nSamuel Clemens (Mark Twain) \nRoberto Clemente \nGrover Cleveland \nRed Cloud \nWilliam F. \u201cBuffalo Bill\u201d Cody \nNat King Cole \nSamuel Colt \nChristopher Columbus \nCalvin Coolidge \nJames Fenimore Cooper \nDavy Crockett \nBenjamin O. Davis, Jr. \nMiles Davis \nDorothy Day \nJoseph H. De Castro \nEmily Dickinson \nWalt Disney \nWilliam \u201cWild Bill\u201d Donovan \nJimmy Doolittle \nDesmond Doss \nFrederick Douglass \nHerbert Henry Dow \nKatharine Drexel \nPeter Drucker \nAmelia Earhart \nThomas Edison \nJonathan Edwards \nAlbert Einstein \nDwight D. Eisenhower \nDuke Ellington \nRalph Waldo Emerson \nMedgar Evers \nDavid Farragut \nThe Marquis de La Fayette \nMary Fields \nHenry Ford \nGeorge Fox \nAretha Franklin, \nBenjamin Franklin \nMilton Friedman \nRobert Frost \nGabby Gabreski \nBernardo de G\u00e1lvez \nLou Gehrig \nTheodor Seuss Geisel \nCass Gilbert \nRuth Bader Ginsburg \nJohn Glenn \nBarry Goldwater \nSamuel Gompers \nAlexander Goode \nCarl Gorman \nBilly Graham \nUlysses S. Grant \nNellie Gray \nNathanael Greene \nWoody Guthrie \nNathan Hale \nWilliam Frederick \u201cBull\u201d Halsey, Jr. \nAlexander Hamilton \nIra Hayes \nHans Christian Heg \nErnest Hemingway \nPatrick Henry \nCharlton Heston \nAlfred Hitchcock \nBillie Holiday \nBob Hope \nJohns Hopkins \nGrace Hopper \nSam Houston \nWhitney Houston \nJulia Ward Howe \nEdwin Hubble \nDaniel Inouye \nAndrew Jackson \nRobert H. Jackson \nMary Jackson \nJohn Jay \nThomas Jefferson \nSteve Jobs \nKatherine Johnson \nBarbara Jordan \nChief Joseph \nElia Kazan \nHelen Keller \nJohn F. Kennedy \nFrancis Scott Key \nCoretta Scott King \nMartin Luther King, Jr. \nRussell Kirk \nJeane Kirkpatrick \nHenry Knox \nTadeusz Ko\u015bciuszko \nHarper Lee \nPierre Charles L\u2019Enfant \nMeriwether Lewis \nAbraham Lincoln \nVince Lombardi \nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow \nClare Boothe Luce \nDouglas MacArthur \nDolley Madison \nJames Madison \nGeorge Marshall \nThurgood Marshall \nWilliam Mayo \nChrista McAuliffe \nWilliam McKinley \nLouise McManus \nHerman Melville \nThomas Merton \nGeorge P. Mitchell \nMaria Mitchell \nWilliam \u201cBilly\u201d Mitchell \nSamuel Morse \nLucretia Mott \nJohn Muir \nAudie Murphy \nEdward Murrow \nJohn Neumann \nAnnie Oakley \nJesse Owens \nRosa Parks \nGeorge S. Patton, Jr. \nCharles Willson Peale \nWilliam Penn \nOliver Hazard Perry \nJohn J. Pershing \nEdgar Allan Poe \nClark Poling \nJohn Russell Pope \nElvis Presley \nJeannette Rankin \nRonald Reagan \nWalter Reed \nWilliam Rehnquist \nPaul Revere \nHenry Hobson Richardson \nHyman Rickover \nSally Ride \nMatthew Ridgway \nJackie Robinson \nNorman Rockwell \nCaesar Rodney \nEleanor Roosevelt \nFranklin D. Roosevelt \nTheodore Roosevelt \nBetsy Ross \nBabe Ruth \nSacagawea \nJonas Salk \nJohn Singer Sargent \nAntonin Scalia \nNorman Schwarzkopf \nJun\u00edpero Serra \nElizabeth Ann Seton \nRobert Gould Shaw \nFulton Sheen \nAlan Shepard \nFrank Sinatra \nMargaret Chase Smith \nBessie Smith \nElizabeth Cady Stanton \nJimmy Stewart \nHarriet Beecher Stowe \nGilbert Stuart \nAnne Sullivan \nWilliam Howard Taft \nMaria Tallchief \nMaxwell Taylor \nTecumseh \nKateri Tekakwitha \nShirley Temple \nNikola Tesla \nJefferson Thomas \nHenry David Thoreau \nJim Thorpe \nAugustus Tolton \nAlex Trebek \nHarry S. Truman \nSojourner Truth \nHarriet Tubman \nDorothy Vaughan \nC. T. Vivian \nJohn von Neumann \nThomas Ustick Walter \nSam Walton \nBooker T. Washington \nGeorge Washington \nJohn Washington \nJohn Wayne \nIda B. Wells-Barnett \nPhillis Wheatley \nWalt Whitman \nLaura Ingalls Wilder \nRoger Williams \nJohn Winthrop \nFrank Lloyd Wright \nOrville Wright \nWilbur Wright \nAlvin C. York \nCy Young \nLorenzo de Zavala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just days before leaving Washington DC, soon to be former President Donald Trump issued an executive order with a list of 244 people who could be memorialized with a statue in his proposed \u201cNational Garden of American Heroes.\u201d Issued on January 18th, the executive order is an update to an order Trump issued in July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-for-artists"],"yoast_head":"\n
Among his final executive orders, Trump lists 244 names for proposed National Garden of American Heroes - United Arts Agency | UAA<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n