U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris applaud after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Fully vaccinated Americans can do away with wearing masks, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today, the most significant shift in federal guidelines since the start of the pandemic. Photographer: Tasos Katopodis/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images
President Joe Biden Friday rescinded several executive orders former president Donald Trump issued during his tenure, including one creating a “National Garden of American Heroes” he proposed on last year’s independence day at Mount Rushmore.
Back in January, just two days before he left the office, Trump had named 244 people that he wanted to honor as statues in his proposed garden.
Trump’s plan was to create a garden with sculptures of American heroes. The 244 people included past presidents, athletes and pop stars. Neil Armstrong, Kobe Bryant and Andrew Carnegie were named among the list.
“The chronicles of our history show that America is a land of heroes…. The gates of a beautiful new garden will soon open to the public where the legends of America’s past will be remembered,” Trump wrote in his order back in January.
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