Editing Whittaker Chambers (section)

===Proposed Whittaker Chambers monument (2020)===
In September 2020, two senators from Carroll County to the [[Maryland General Assembly]], [[Justin Ready]] and [[Michael Hough (politician)|Michael Hough]], announced their intention, reported in the ''[[Carroll County Times]]''<ref>{{cite news
| first1 = Bob
| last1 = Blubaugh
| title = State senators nominate Westminster resident Whittaker Chambers for federal honor
| newspaper = Carroll County Times
| publisher = Baltimore Sun
| url = https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-chambers-memorial-proposed-20200904-nbymwwml65g2hlbcfyfxwvxtl4-story.html
| date = September 4, 2020
| access-date = September 19, 2020
| archive-date = September 4, 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200904152027/https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-chambers-memorial-proposed-20200904-nbymwwml65g2hlbcfyfxwvxtl4-story.html
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}}</ref> to recommend a "Whittaker Chambers Memorial"<ref>{{cite web
| title = Senators Hough & Ready Urge Creation of Whittaker Chambers Memorial
| work = Ready for Maryland
| publisher = Justin Ready
| url = https://www.justinready.com/senators_hough_ready_urge_creation_of_whittaker_chambers_memorial_anti-communist_hero_and_carroll_countian
| date = September 3, 2020
| access-date = September 19, 2020
| archive-date = October 1, 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201001064238/https://www.justinready.com/senators_hough_ready_urge_creation_of_whittaker_chambers_memorial_anti-communist_hero_and_carroll_countian
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}}</ref> for a "[[National Garden of American Heroes]], following an [[Executive Order|executive order]] by [[Donald J. Trump]] to create an Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes to establish that garden.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
| url = https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/
| date = July 3, 2020
| via = [[NARA|National Archives]]
| work = [[whitehouse.gov]]
| access-date = September 19, 2020
| archive-date = January 26, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210126200033/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/
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}}</ref> Two members of the Whittaker Chambers family also wrote the ''Carroll County Times'' to oppose the senators' intention:<blockquote><small>Whittaker Chambers sought a simple life of farming the Pipe Creek Farm. He was a Quaker. His beliefs ran toward austerity and self-effacement. Quaker meeting houses stand unadorned, without monuments or statues. He would not have liked such fanfare.<br />The best way to remember our grandfather is to read his books. They are his memoir ''Witness'' (1952) and his later writings in ''Cold Friday'' (1964). Rather than a monument, he left testimony to read.<br />As President Ronald Reagan said, when posthumously presenting the Medal of Freedom to him in 1984, "The witness is gone; the testimony will stand."<ref>{{cite news
| first1 = Joseph
| last1 = Chambers
| first2 = David
| last2 = Chambers
| title = Family says no thanks to Whittaker Chambers monument
| newspaper = Carroll County Times
| publisher = Baltimore Sun
| url = https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-letters-091720-20200917-udq6fd3vcnfrtccbpzjju5x2pq-story.html
| date = 17 September 2020
| access-date = 19 September 2020
| archive-date = November 7, 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201107032558/https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-letters-091720-20200917-udq6fd3vcnfrtccbpzjju5x2pq-story.html
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Whittaker Chambers Monument – No Thanks
| publisher = WhittakerChambers.org
| url = https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/09/28/whittaker-chambers-monument-no-thanks/
| date = 28 September 2020
| access-date = 28 September 2020
| archive-date = October 29, 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201029081233/https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/09/28/whittaker-chambers-monument-no-thanks/
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}}</ref> </small> </blockquote>