McKinley’s Greatest Monument

[mystery-ak]

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/mckinleys-greatest-monument/89268/

McKinley’s Greatest Monument
Editorial of The New York Sun | August 30, 2015

It’s a mystery to us where President Obama or his interior secretary, Sally Jewell, gets the authority to rename in Alaska a mountain whose name was ratified by Congress a century ago as McKinley. We can understand the Democratic Party’s interest, in that McKinley, a Republican, was a particularly fine President. He was, moreover, one of four presidents felled by an assassin. We can understand, too, the sentiments of Alaska, whose legislature has wanted to change the name. Where, though, does the president come off doing this by fiat?

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[andy58-in-nh]

It’s a mystery to us where President Obama or his interior secretary, Sally Jewell, gets the authority to rename in Alaska a mountain whose name was ratified by Congress a century ago as McKinley.
 
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Where, though, does the president come off doing this by fiat?

It's not as though this is the first time he's played Louis XIV ("L'Etat, C'est Moi")
 
It's good to be the king.

[EdinVA]

It’s a mystery to us where President Obama or his interior secretary, Sally Jewell, gets the authority...

Who's going to stop them?  Boehner?  McConnell?   

[Fishrrman]

Maybe when Trump gets elected, he'll change the name back to Mt. McKinley...   ;)

[Machiavelli]

It’s a mystery to us where President Obama or his interior secretary, Sally Jewell, gets the authority to rename in Alaska a mountain whose name was ratified by Congress a century ago as McKinley. We can understand the Democratic Party’s interest, in that McKinley, a Republican, was a particularly fine President. He was, moreover, one of four presidents felled by an assassin. We can understand, too, the sentiments of Alaska, whose legislature has wanted to change the name. Where, though, does the president come off doing this by fiat?

That question can be answered on 5th post of the 2nd page of this other thread.

Yes. He has the authority.

[Lando Lincoln]

That question can be answered on 5th post of the 2nd page of this other thread.

Yes. He has the authority.

While likely so, I would not not accept that wiki-blurb as definitive in this matter. You know, that whole internet thing.