US EditionPentagon Reinstalls Portrait of Confederate General
The Pentagon's reinstatement of Lee's 20-foot portrait at West Point follows a 2020 law removing Confederate symbols; the painting depicts a slave guiding Lee's horse.
- The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform at West Point's library.
- A congressionally mandated commission had recommended removing the portrait as part of efforts to scrub tributes to the Confederacy from the military.
- The Trump administration previously reinstated Confederate names for Army bases and a Confederate memorial, defying the commission's work.
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Pentagon restoring portrait of Lee at West Point
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general's horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
‘We honor our history,’ say the West Point officials restoring a painting that glorifies an enslaver
In a controversial move, Donald Trump’s Pentagon is overseeing the return of a prominent portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to the library at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The painting, which is a large canvas that shows Lee with an enslaved man who is holding his horse, was taken down from the institution’s library after a 2020 law was passed. That law was aimed at getting rid of tributes to the Confederacy from a…
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point
The reinstallation marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated commission charged with scrubbing tributes to the Confederacy from the military.
Portrait of Robert E. Lee restored at West Point library and leftists CAN'T deal
Common sense is making a comeback under the Trump administration, which does not tolerate the erasing of American history. The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Robert E. Lee to the West Point library, where it hung for 70 years until a post-George Floyd congressionally mandated commission ordered the removal of all displays that “commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy,” The New York Times reported. “At West Point, the United States Milita…
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