Trump Adds to List of ‘American Heroes’ to Be Honored in National Garden

Trump Adds to List of ‘American Heroes’ to Be Honored in National Garden
Muhammad Ali punches a bag in his Deer Lake, Pa., training camp where he was preparing for his rematch with Joe Frazier, on Jan.10, 1974. (Rusty Kennedy/AP Photo)
Zachary Stieber
1/18/2021
Updated:
1/18/2021

President Donald Trump on Monday announced dozens of new additions to a list of “American heroes” that will be honored in a national garden.

Trump announced the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes last year. At the time, he named 31 people he said were heroes, including explorer Daniel Boone, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and pilot Amelia Earhart.

“I am announcing the creation of a new monument to the giants of our past,“ Trump said at the time, describing the public area as ”a vast outdoor park” with statues.

In a Jan. 18 executive order building on his proposal last year, Trump said a task force dedicated to plan for the construction of the garden finished its first phase and is prepared to move forward.

The amended order includes dozens of new people Trump has named as heroes.

They include astronaut Neil Armstrong, singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek.

Americans are included if they made “substantive contributions to America’s public life or otherwise had a substantive effect on America’s history,” the updated description says.

The order instructs the Interior secretary to proceed with the construction of the garden after a suitable site is located.

See the full list of heroes below.

Ansel Adams John Adams Samuel Adams Muhammad Ali Luis Walter Alvarez Susan B. Anthony Hannah Arendt Louis Armstrong Neil Armstrong Crispus Attucks John James Audubon Lauren Bacall Clara Barton Todd Beamer Alexander Graham Bell Roy Benavidez Ingrid Bergman Irving Berlin Humphrey Bogart Daniel Boone Norman Borlaug William Bradford Herb Brooks Kobe Bryant William F. Buckley Jr. Sitting Bull, Frank Capra Andrew Carnegie Charles Carroll John Carroll George Washington Carver Johnny Cash Joshua Chamberlain Whittaker Chambers Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman Ray Charles Julia Child Gordon Chung-Hoon William Clark Henry Clay Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Roberto Clemente Grover Cleveland Red Cloud William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody Nat King Cole Samuel Colt Christopher Columbus Calvin Coolidge James Fenimore Cooper Davy Crockett Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Miles Davis Dorothy Day Joseph H. De Castro Emily Dickinson Walt Disney William “Wild Bill” Donovan Jimmy Doolittle Desmond Doss Frederick Douglass Herbert Henry Dow Katharine Drexel Peter Drucker Amelia Earhart Thomas Edison Jonathan Edwards Albert Einstein Dwight D. Eisenhower Duke Ellington Ralph Waldo Emerson Medgar Evers David Farragut The Marquis de La Fayette Mary Fields Henry Ford George Fox Aretha Franklin Benjamin Franklin Milton Friedman Robert Frost Gabby Gabreski Bernardo de Gálvez Lou Gehrig Theodor Seuss Geisel Cass Gilbert Ruth Bader Ginsburg John Glenn Barry Goldwater Samuel Gompers Alexander Goode Carl Gorman Billy Graham Ulysses S. Grant Nellie Gray Nathanael Greene Woody Guthrie Nathan Hale William Frederick “Bull” Halsey Jr. Alexander Hamilton Ira Hayes Hans Christian Heg Ernest Hemingway Patrick Henry Charlton Heston Alfred Hitchcock Billie Holiday Bob Hope Johns Hopkins Grace Hopper Sam Houston Whitney Houston Julia Ward Howe Edwin Hubble Daniel Inouye Andrew Jackson Robert H. Jackson Mary Jackson John Jay Thomas Jefferson Steve Jobs Katherine Johnson Barbara Jordan Chief Joseph Elia Kazan Helen Keller John F. Kennedy Francis Scott Key Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Russell Kirk Jeane Kirkpatrick Henry Knox, Tadeusz Kościuszko Harper Lee Pierre Charles L’Enfant Meriwether Lewis Abraham Lincoln Vince Lombardi Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Clare Boothe Luce Douglas MacArthur Dolley Madison James Madison George Marshall Thurgood Marshall William Mayo Christa McAuliffe William McKinley Louise McManus Herman Melville Thomas Merton George P. Mitchell Maria Mitchell William “Billy” Mitchell Samuel Morse Lucretia Mott John Muir Audie Murphy Edward Murrow John Neumann Annie Oakley Jesse Owens Rosa Parks George S. Patton Jr. Charles Willson Peale William Penn Oliver Hazard Perry John J. Pershing Edgar Allan Poe Clark Poling John Russell Pope Elvis Presley Jeannette Rankin Ronald Reagan Walter Reed William Rehnquist Paul Revere Henry Hobson Richardson Hyman Rickover Sally Ride Matthew Ridgway Jackie Robinson Norman Rockwell Caesar Rodney Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Betsy Ross Babe Ruth Sacagawea Jonas Salk John Singer Sargent Antonin Scalia Norman Schwarzkopf Junípero Serra Elizabeth Ann Seton Robert Gould Shaw Fulton Sheen Alan Shepard Frank Sinatra Margaret Chase Smith Bessie Smith Elizabeth Cady Stanton Jimmy Stewart Harriet Beecher Stowe Gilbert Stuart Anne Sullivan William Howard Taft Maria Tallchief Maxwell Taylor Tecumseh Kateri Tekakwitha Shirley Temple Nikola Tesla Jefferson Thomas Henry David Thoreau Jim Thorpe Augustus Tolton Alex Trebek Harry S. Truman Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Dorothy Vaughan C. T. Vivian John von Neumann Thomas Ustick Walter Sam Walton Booker T. Washington George Washington John Washington John Wayne Ida B. Wells-Barnett Phillis Wheatley Walt Whitman Laura Ingalls Wilder Roger Williams John Winthrop Frank Lloyd Wright Orville Wright Wilbur Wright Alvin C. York Cy Young Lorenzo de Zavala