Okay, Susan B. Anthony, you've had your dollar. Sacagawea, same for you.
Now get out of the way, because it's time for men to be honored.
The U.S. Treasury will shortly begin issuing one-dollar coins in new designs, five different per year, to commemorate the 39 (and counting) dead Presidents.
Whether he was President for 31 days or twelve years, whether he saved the nation or nearly destroyed it, each former President will be honored (sometimes for the tenth or twentieth time).
Women who contributed to the nation's history will have to move to the back of the queue.
We will be honoring James Garfield ahead of Clara Barton.
William Howard Taft ahead of Harriett Tubman.
Gerald Ford ahead of Rachel Carson.
Oh, yes, and Richard Nixon will finally get his portrait on a piece of U.S. currency.
Richard Milhous Nixon.
Some time around 2015, innocent children will be paying for cartons of milk with coins bearing the portrait of Richard For God's Sake Nixon.
Instead of Amelia Earhart.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Consider your priorities carefully."\\
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