The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project wants
Congress to replace founding father Alexander Hamilton
with the 40th president on the $10 bill.
"Hamilton was a nice guy and everything,
but he wasn't president," said Grover Norquist, who
heads the project as well as Americans for Tax Reform.
"As a board member of the NRA, I can also tell you
that he was a bad shot."
USA Today reported today: "Hamilton
may be remembered most for a fight he lost - a duel of
honor against Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804 that left
him fatally wounded. But Hamilton was also a Revolutionary
War hero, George Washington's chief of staff, an author
of the Federalist Papers and a Treasury secretary who
created many of the financial and economic systems that
survive today."
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would
sponsor the legislation at the appropriate time. A spokesman
for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said "there
could be a head of steam" behind the proposal.
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