[monkey]

Why is Adams the least known of the Founding Fathers?

George Mason is the least known.

The monument to FDR, if you've not seen it, is a kissy-up, socialist advertisement. They could fit five monuments to deserving Presidents, like Adams, in the space.

[Lady In Blue]

I'm ashamed to say that I don't know anything about Mason!(blush)

[Paulus Invictus]

You are absolutley correct! The tasteless monument to FDR was pushed through by the RATs. In my estimation FDR did not come close to comparing with John Adams as a great leader. The biography of Adams was one of the best I've ever read about a president. He was a giant and deserves our gratitude and the praise of the nation.

[Charles Henrickson]

I agree with you on the FDR memorial. An exercise in excess. Political correctness run amuck. Wordy, inflated rhetoric engraved all over the place: "blah, blah, blah. . . ."

Still, FDR was one of our three most important and influential (for good or for ill) Presidents: Washington, Lincoln, and F. Roosevelt, FDR being both the Father of Big Government and a key figure in WWII. So I suppose a monument was in order. But it's as badly done--and overdone--as possible.