EDITORIAL
Honor Reagan, yes, but wait on currency

Last week, America stopped to honor Ronald Reagan and his service to the country as our president.

That was entirely appropriate. What is not appropriate, at least not now, is to make a final decision on Reagan's enduring legacy as a president and national leader.

He had many virtues, but he also had his own set of faults. It takes time, history and perspective to decide how the entire record fills out.

For that reason, it is inappropriate — as some in Congress have already proposed — to put Reagan on the $10 bill in place of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

That proposal rushes history and common sense.

There are already numerous memorials for the former president to help us remember him. And there will be others.

But at this time of emotion, it is too soon, too premature to conclude that Reagan deserves to supplant Hamilton on the $10 bill or, for that matter, as some have proposed, to replace Franklin D. Roosevelt on the dime.