And 80 Republican members of Congress are backing an effort to replace the face of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the dime coin with that of Ronald Reagan. The bill’s chief sponsor Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana said, “It is particularly fitting to honor the Freedom President on this particular piece of coinage because… President Reagan was wounded under the left arm by a bullet that had ricocheted and flattened to the size of a dime.”
GOP Wants Reagan’s Face Not FDR’s On Dime
HeadlineDec 04, 2003