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12. National Park Service has open comment page for Albert Speer Memorial Arch, which is next on MAGA wish list
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 07:56 AM
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Simon Rosenberg
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So this really is about Robert E. Lee and the Confederates not having to look at Lincoln's Memorial for eternity?

‪James Fallows‬
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· 15h
National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list

You can make comments here: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpenForReview.cfm?projectID=136973&parkID=186

That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

View toward the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, from Arlington.
ALT

Giant Albert Speer-style arch blocking view of Lincoln Memorial.
ALT
5:15 PM · Jun 7, 2026

So this really is about Robert E. Lee and the Confederates not having to look at Lincoln's Memorial for eternity?

Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T21:15:29.466Z


James Fallows
‪@jfallows.bsky.social‬

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list

You can make comments here: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpenForReview.cfm?projectID=136973&parkID=186

That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

View toward the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, from Arlington.
ALT

Giant Albert Speer-style arch blocking view of Lincoln Memorial.
ALT
4:11 PM · Jun 7, 2026

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list

You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe...

That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T20:11:09.136Z

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