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The U.S. House of Representatives is considering honoring former president Ronald Reagan with a monument. But as CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg reports, it may not be an easy task.If the country wants to honor a president, National Mall in Washington D.C. is the perfect place.Already there are monuments to the
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stanley quencher ent should be commemorated, says John Parsons of the National Capitol Memorial Commission.So the three commissions that approve monuments all said no to a Reagan monument on the mall. But there is no shortage of existing tributes to Mr. Reagan. Just in Washington, the largest federal office building bears his name and Washington s National Airport was re-named Ronald Reagan National Airport last year. In Los Angeles, there s a freeway and a fancy hotel suite with his name on the door. And in Virginia, an Xalf Elderly woman strangled by clothes caught in escalator
At first glance, we weren ;t entirely sure what Radiant Soil, a massive instal
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