Bush Puts Brakes on Memorial To Reagan.

The Bush administration surprised Republican members of Congress yesterday by saying that it is too soon to build a memorial to honor former president Ronald Reagan on the Mall.

The spectacle of the new GOP administration casting doubts on a proposal to speed a monument to the party’s most admired living hero arose when Richard G. Ring, an assistant director of the National Park Service, testified to the House that it was Reagan himself who signed a 1986 law that barred any memorial on the Mall until 25 years after a person’s death. Washington Post