Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the U.S. state of South Dakota, features the faces of four U.S. presidents, each selected by the memorial’s sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, to symbolize a key event in the first 150 years of American history: George Washington, to represent the country’s founding; Thomas Jefferson, its expansion across the continent; Theodore Roosevelt, its development domestically and as a global power; and Abraham Lincoln, its preservation through the ordeal of civil war.
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