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Seems like Columbus did not want what he found to be a new continent (or little did he know two!)
Columbus Discovered the New World … So Why Isn't America Named After Him?
No sir. What we learned is Christopher Columbus made errors that embarrassed him and cost him his sponsor.
""Columbus maintained until his dying day that the new land he had discovered was, in fact, Asia. In contrast, Vespucci was one of the first, if not
the first explorer to declare that the New World was an entirely newfound entity (at least to the Europeans).""
Ben Franklin wanted the national bird/symbol to be the turkey.
Franklin Roosevelt tried to change the date of Thanksgiving.
Ronald Regan allowed prescription drug mfgrs to advertise their products directly to us consumers ( "Ask your doctor about ___" ).
Everyone makes mistakes. We don't recognize and/or celebrate those.