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Letters to the Editor: Don t diminish the legacies of great leaders
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In this June 12, 1944, file photo President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on a national radio program from the White House in Washington. Roosevelt was diagnosed early in 1944 as suffering from high blood pressure, hypertensive heart disease, cardiac failure and acute bronchitis.Eugene Abbott/Associated Press
Regarding “Lincoln’s legacy not aging well, school panel decides” (Front Page, Dec. 16): I am shocked that a school district advisory committee recommends expunging the names of former presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt from local school sites. I fully support removing statues and honorifics dedicated to those who defended slavery and worked to construct the cruel system of racist segregation and oppression that replaced it. But I am offended by efforts to diminish the historical legacy of two of America’s greatest president ....

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