The Issue: The removal of a Theodore Roosevelt statue from the Museum of Natural History grounds.
Out of all the possible courses of action, the removal of the Theodore Roosevelt statue outside the Museum of Natural History will do nothing to advance the causes of liberty, equity and justice (“Teddy statue is ‘history,’ ” Jan. 20).
At the end of the day, Roosevelt represents our republic. When Congress failed to muster the political wherewithal to send the US Navy around the world, Roosevelt forced them to summon the intestinal fortitude to raise our country to new levels of maritime mastery.
If we are to combat Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, who rhetorically and militarily mock us every day, we must remember leaders who advanced policies that set America on the path to successfully defeat dictatorship, the plague of political polarization and ultimately the ills of ignorance.
Henry J.H. Wilson
Barrington, Ill.
The statue of Roosevelt will find a new home in North Dakota, an area that venerates him as a man and as a political leader.
He came to Medora, ND, after the near-simultaneous deaths of his wife and mother and ranched in the area.
In appreciation of his deeds, North Dakotans are building his presidential library in Medora, an area he loved.
Fred LaVenuta
Fargo, ND
I am not a resident of New York City but have visited frequently as both a tourist and on business for close to 40 years.
There is only one American city that provides the experience of New York. From culture to retail, to beautiful sunsets and parks, to breathtaking skyscrapers, to world-class art and culinary opportunities.
Did New York City lose its collective mind? The city is openly sanctioning open drug use and homelessness yet removing a monument to presidential freedom fighter — for all Americans — Teddy Roosevelt?
During my first city visit in 1983, it wasn’t the small-time criminals marauding around Times Square I fondly recall; it was the Statue of Liberty, the Twin Towers observation deck and Teddy Roosevelt proudly welcoming me (a nobody from a small town in Massachusetts) to an almost unrealistically amazing Museum of Natural History.
William Thompson
Melrose, Mass.
The statue of one of the presidents who proudly hails his place on Mount Rushmore was taken away in the night to be hidden in the great state of North Dakota.
I praise North Dakotans and their realization that this was one of the greatest presidents we ever had in this country.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretary of the Navy, New York City police commissioner and more.
For the woke to make this hero leave the Museum of Natural History is a sad state of affairs for both the museum and America.
I actually felt proud to visit with my children and family. I will never visit or donate again.
Doc Ludemann
Bridgeport, Conn.
Freedom of expression is a basic building block of thought. This reminds me of the Taliban destroying thousand-year-old carvings.
Removing statues, paintings, etc., will not change history. It is especially important to preserve and protect that which made us what we are as a nation. Live with it. Learn from it. Or remain ignorant.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
I guess we can all feel safer now that the statue of Theodore Roosevelt has been removed from the front of the American Museum of Natural History after 80 years.
I find it strange, though, that this blow and against “racism and colonialism” had to be conducted at night, as has been the case across the country with so many other removals of statues and monuments allegedly honoring “white supremacist” oppression.
You would think that the statue’s removal would have been a major media event conducted in broad daylight.
How much more of this woke, revisionist assault against our national heritage are Americans supposed to tolerate?
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
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