Benjamin Franklin laments the choice of the bald eagle as a national symbol - January 26th, 1784 - a podcast by iHeartRadio & HowStuffWorks

On this day in 1784, in a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed his disapproval of the eagle as America’s symbol.

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