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Lamar Alexander: Taking the entrance fees first, the Great Smokies, as you well know, was given to the United States by the people of…

On the recordMay 6, 2013
Taking the entrance fees first, the Great Smokies, as you well know, was given to the United States by the people of Tennessee and North Carolina and schoolchildren who collected dollars, all this in the 1930s.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander highlights historical context of entrance fees for national parks and funding disparities.

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