Earlier this week, a bronze statue of Ronald Reagan was unveiled at the Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. The Gipper is nine feet tall, plenty big, but is it big enough to adequately honor this metaphorical giant of modern conservativism? It made me wonder, when it comes to turning our icons into icons , does size matter?
Richard Nixon in Rapid City, South Dakota —4-5 feet tall
John F. Kennedy in Ireland—- life size, so around 6 feet tall
George W. Bush in Albania —9.3 feet tall
Bill Clinton in Kosovo—- 11 feet tall
Jimmy Carter in Plains Georgia (as a peanut)— 13 feet tall
Optimus Prime in China— 45 feet tall
Jolly Green Giant in Minnesota—55 feet tall
Kim Il Sung in North Korea— 65.5 feet tall
Sam Houston in Hunstville, Texas— 67 feet tall Golden Driller Oilman in Tulsa—- 75 feet tall V.I. Lenin in Volgograd—88.6 feet tall Mao Zedong in China—105 feet tall Spring Temple Buddha in China—– 420 feet tall
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