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Trump’s Triumphal Arch Completes A Longstanding National Aspiration

It is a national embarrassment that policy makers have neglected for more than 100 years to build a monument on this circle to honor our nation and its veterans.

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President Trump has honored our nation and its noble veterans throughout both terms of his presidency. Now, President Trump is planning to complete a long overdue project to honor our nation’s veterans by building a monumental arch on Memorial Circle at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery.

It is a national embarrassment that policy makers have neglected for more than 100 years to build a congressionally authorized monument on this circle to honor our nation and its veterans. As chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, I applaud President Trump’s historic efforts to build a monumental arch at Memorial Circle, and will vote to approve this project.

In 1925, Congress enacted a law authorizing the executive branch to construct a monumental project linking the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery. The centerpiece of this project would be a monumental plaza on Columbia Island between Robert E. Lee’s home atop Arlington Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial.

Congress envisioned that this plaza would symbolize the enduring unity of North and South and provide a fitting entrance to the cemetery where our grateful nation has laid its veterans to rest. Under the original plan, two massive 166-foot columns topped by allegorical figures would dominate the plaza.

The 1925 Act was the culmination of a decades-long campaign to create a monumental landscape linking Washington, D.C. and Virginia, North and South. President Andrew Jackson promoted such a project as “a symbol of the firmly established union of the North and South,” and Daniel Webster to span the river “with arches of........

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