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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 26505698, member: 43872&quot;]I, too, was 14 when Kennedy was shot, but I lived in a different world from you.&nbsp; Not everybody was so shocked and wanting him commemorated in the South.&nbsp; The coin was seen as very partisan.&nbsp; Whether it helped LBJ or not in 1964, I can&#039;t say, since he almost certainly would have been elected anyway, (it certainly did not do much for him in 1968) but issuing it was very unpopular in much of the South.&nbsp; I&#039;m not against having dead people on the coins, and some of my historical heroes have made it (e.g., Washington, Lincoln, G. W. Carver), but they need to have been dead long enough that, first, they and their memory no longer stir partisan passions, and second, that time enough has passed to reflect in a non-partisan evaluation of their worthiness.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure Democrats of today would choose to put him on a coin if he were not already on one.&nbsp; Likewise, there were many who passionately disliked Roosevelt.&nbsp; Some today are even offended by Washington and Jefferson because they both owned slaves.&nbsp; Why not stick to representations of Liberty or symbols of our country, at least for circulating coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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