In a New York Times op-ed, Lucian K. Truscott IV argued that Monticello is enough of a tribute to the third president.
A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson has called for the memorial to the third president to be removed from Washington, D.C.
In the piece, Truscott argues that Monticello serves as an “almost perfect memorial” to the nation’s third president. In his opinion, Monticello notes Jefferson’s major contributions to the creation of the United States — including the Declaration of Independence — but also includes his history as a slave owner, or, as Truscott writes, “it reveals him with his moral failings in full, an imperfect man, a flawed founder.
In a July feature in Smithsonian Magazine, another Jefferson descendant, Shannon LaNier, was photographed in the same style as his sixth great-grandfather but opted not to wear a wig because he “didn’t want to become Jefferson.” A statue of Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s 26th president, is set to be removed from outside New York City’s American Museum of Natural History — not as a commentary on Roosevelt but owing to how it depicts the two figures flanking him, a Native American man and a Black man. The museum said it still planned to honor Roosevelt, whom it called a “a pioneering conservationist.”
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