You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

GOP Wants Reagan’s Face Not FDR’s On Dime

HeadlineDec 04, 2003

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.”

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top