A soprano saxophonist, Livingston helped Lawrence win the MTNA's chamber music competition. He will study in the Masters of Music in Classical Performance program at the New England Conservatory in Boston. But like FDR, his memorial is not without controversies. The most contentious of those is over how much the memorial should deal with Roosevelt's paralysis after being stricken by poliomyelitis in 1921. There also is some debate about whether FDR deserves to be in the memorialized company of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson.
Some historians say that controversy has dwindled over the decades.
His dedication to what is now called positive government revolutionized the American political process and effectively changed interpretation of the Constitution. McCarthy's name his primary legacy. However, college and high school textbooks now treat McCarthy as part of Cold War history. Larry Longley, political science professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, agreed. After 40 years students don't have much knowledge of him.