Dusty Johnson: “Obviously, I do not speak for my colleagues on either side of the aisle. I speak only as this Senator, expressing, one…”

“Obviously, I do not speak for my colleagues on either side of the aisle. I speak only as this Senator, expressing, one, my conviction that there ought to be a very significant memorial to Ronald Reagan. There is one that has been built. The doors, the ribbons have not yet been cut. They soon will be. And this is an extraordinary memorial in one of the most prominent locations of all of Washington. I applaud that. The only other question I raise is whether there ought to be yet another memorial before the ribbon has even been cut on the first large one, which would have an effect on the airport that memorialized George Washington and which has not gone through what seems to me, from this Senator's point of view, an orderly, thoughtful process. The Board of Trade in the Washington area, other groups think this is a poor idea, that perhaps there ought to be other memorials to Ronald Reagan. I would say probably that is true. The suggestion is there ought to be one in every State. Perhaps there ought to be. Perhaps there ought to be more in Washington, DC. However, I simply raise as this Senator's point of view that I think we are getting carried away in a nonsystematic and not terribly thoughtful process about how we name and pull names off of memorials to great Americans.”