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Rich Lowry: What’s in Your Wallet?

Harriet Tubman was literally a freedom fighter. The "Moses" of the Underground Railroad liberated herself and dozens of others from slavery over the years in a biopic-worthy life of bravery and idealism.

She has now been selected to eventually replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, bumping him to the back in the worst defeat for Old Hickory since John Quincy Adams "stole" the presidency from him in 1824.

The political imperative at work here is obvious -- find a woman, preferably a minority, to downgrade one of the dead white males dominating the currency. But the images on the nation's curre...

 

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