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"Speaking by phone from his office in Washington, Smith seems equally delighted and amused.After all, it is Smith, director of the American studies program at American University, who first promulgated the idea of a Lincoln statue in the former Confederate capital of Richmond.Smith, who is black, suggested the statue in July 2001 before a crowd gathered to celebrate \"Confederate Heritage Day\" at Pamplin Historical Park in Dinwiddie. He planted the seed there because \"these are the people who will have to support the idea for that to happen,\" he said to the Richmond-Times Dispatch at the time."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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