Who should be the fifth face on Mount Rushmore?
There is room on that mountain for one more face, and everybody has a candidate.
1Benjamin Franklin
The Founder with the widest reach and no presidency, which is exactly why he is not up there.
2Martin Luther King Jr.
The most frequently named candidate, and the only one with a monument of his own on the Mall.
3Franklin D. Roosevelt
Four terms, the New Deal and the Second World War.
4Dwight D. Eisenhower
Commanded the Normandy landings, then built the interstate highway system.
5Alexander Hamilton
Designed the financial machinery the country still runs on.
6Harriet Tubman
The Underground Railroad's most effective conductor.
7John Adams
Pushed Congress into declaring independence and served as the second President.
8Frederick Douglass
The abolitionist writer and orator who forced the country to hear itself.
9Neil Armstrong
The first human footprint on another world was an American one.
10Susan B. Anthony
Spent fifty years campaigning for a vote she never got to cast legally.
11James Madison
Drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that Rushmore's four swore to.
12Mark Twain
Gave the country its literary voice and its sharpest self-criticism.
13Amelia Earhart
Flew the Atlantic solo and disappeared into the century's most enduring mystery.
14Sacagawea
Interpreted and guided across the continent the expedition that mapped it.
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