President
Joe Biden rescinded his predecessor
Donald Trump’s order that would have created a National Garden of American Heroes, a proposal panned by at least one historian as a “totalitarian-sounding” idea of the government choosing its cultural luminaries in a manner reminiscent of Stalinist Russia.
Biden jettisoned the idea without fanfare on Friday, in an order revoking roughly half a dozen of Trump’s actions as president from last May through his end of his lame duck session.
Announced last year on the cusp of Independence Day, Trump’s brainchild envisioned a park filled with memorials of U.S. historical, political, and cultural figures his government designated as heroes. Nearly three-quarters of those people were reportedly men, and one was the late Supreme Court Justice