The construction of Mount Rushmore National Memorial took about 14 years, from 1927 to 1941.
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—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
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“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)