PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner about the mystery of the National Park Service threat to remove permanently a statue of William Penn from a Philadelphia park -- and the happy ending thanks to the swift auth
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
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https://salenazito.com/2024/01/08/william-penn-and-the-removal-of-historys-lessons-2/
1689 Charles II grants land to William Penn that becomes Pennsylvania for the persecuted Quakers of England.
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| 0:30.2 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:31.3 | William Penn, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:34.2 | The news was striking midweek that William Penn's statue in Philadelphia and Welcome Park would be |
| 0:42.4 | removed permanently. I was flabbergasted. And so I turned to |
| 0:49.0 | Selina Zito of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, writing in the Wall Street Journal often. |
| 0:56.0 | To help me understand this decision, fortunately there is a very happy outcome and it involves the new governor of Pennsylvania. |
| 1:04.8 | Here is Selina to explain the mystery of the National Park Service seeking to permanently |
| 1:11.2 | remove a statue of the founder of Pennsylvania, born 1644, died 1718. |
| 1:19.6 | William Penn. |
| 1:21.2 | Billy Penn. |
| 1:22.2 | Here's Selina. |
| 1:24.0 | So, it's such an astounding moment in American political decisions, right, or bureaucratic decisions. |
| 1:34.0 | William Penn is beloved and it's one of the few men that both |
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