Mount Rushmore is incomplete: Here’s who is missing

Published June 26, 2026 9:00am ET



Last week, I stood at the foot of Mount Rushmore

Like millions of Americans before me, I looked up at the granite faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln and felt a familiar sense of awe. 

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