President Jackson's Magnolia to be Removed
I have agreed
with and supported almost everything Trump has accomplished, but this time I do
not! However, after investigation I discovered that the tree is dangerous. I
remember they say that several people have been killed by falling trees in
Central Park in New York. Also, they do not plan to remove the whole tree. And
they have taken sprouts from it which are growing nearby, and one will be
planted where the original tree was.
Here is the
Jackson
Magnolia
John Rice, “When Andrew
Jackson went to the White House as
the nation’s seventh president, Baker related, he took a cutting from a
Magnolia tree from his home, The Hermitage, near Nashville. This branch was
planted in the White House lawn in memory of his beloved wife, Rachel, who had
died. ...” Rachel died on Dec. 22, 1828, two weeks after he won the election to
the presidency and prior to his March 4, 1829, inauguration.
Helicopters land near this Magnolia. Here President Bush headed for Camp David March 20, 2006.
Here it is on our money many years ago.
John Rice said, “The tree grew and it prospered. It has been admired by every president ever since. In February 1987, President Reagan asked the immensely popular and highly respected Baker, who had recently retired from the U.S. Senate, to become the White House chief of staff, a position he held until July 1988. When Baker left this office to come back home to Tennessee, President Reagan and members of the National Park Service, gave the Senator a cutting from old Andy’s tree, to ‘bring back to Tennessee.’
On Friday, April 14, 1995, a formal ceremony was held at the Museum of Appalachia to plant two cuttings from Sen. Howard Baker’s Magnolia tree at his home in Huntsville. This tree had grown from a cutting taken from the Jackson Magnolia at the White House and given to Baker by President Ronald Reagan upon Baker’s retirement as chief of staff.
A White
House official told CNN that the first lady made the decision after reviewing
and assessing professional information and historical documents. “Mrs. Trump
personally reviewed the reports from the United States National Arboretum and
spoke at length with her staff about exploring every option before making the
decision to remove a portion of the magnolia tree,” Trump’s communications
director, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN. “After reviewing the reports, she
trusted that every effort had been made to preserve the historic tree and was
concerned about the safety of visitors and members of the press, who are often
standing right in front of the tree during Marine One lifts.”
The tree was
about to fall, and experts recommended its removal. Mrs. Trump, according to
Grisham, has requested to preserve the wood from the tree.
The tree is
expected to be removed later this week. White House groundskeepers were
prepared for the tree’s demise, however, and offshoots of the original Jackson
magnolia have been growing nearby. They are around 8 to 10 feet tall and
will be planted in the original tree’s place, according to CNN.
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