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Trump administration spending $5M to restore, gold-plate Lincoln Memorial statues
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The Interior Department on Thursday said it would regild the four gold-plated Arts of War and Arts of Peace equestrian statues near the Lincoln Memorial. Each of the statues were sent as a gift to the U.S. from Italy about 75 years ago. The new regilding project is slated to cost $5.1 million and ma
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