Movement Strengthens to Honor Reagan on $10 Bill

The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project wants Congress to replace founding father Alexander Hamilton with the 40th president on the $10 bill.

"Hamilton was a nice guy and everything, but he wasn't president," said Grover Norquist, who heads the project as well as Americans for Tax Reform. "As a board member of the NRA, I can also tell you that he was a bad shot."

USA Today reported today: "Hamilton may be remembered most for a fight he lost - a duel of honor against Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804 that left him fatally wounded. But Hamilton was also a Revolutionary War hero, George Washington's chief of staff, an author of the Federalist Papers and a Treasury secretary who created many of the financial and economic systems that survive today."

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would sponsor the legislation at the appropriate time. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said "there could be a head of steam" behind the proposal.

An alternative being floated: keeping FDR on the dime but adding Reagan to the other side.

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