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Opinion Another controversy at the White House’s code talker ceremony

December 15, 2017 at 5:22 p.m. EST
President Trump, standing left, listens as Navajo code talker Peter MacDonald speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 27. Navajo code talkers Fleming Begaye Sr., left, and Thomas Begay, center, listen. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Many people must have noted the irony of the photograph of a portrait of Andrew Jackson hanging over a ceremony at the White House to honor Navajo code talkers as shown with the Dec. 9 Free for All letter "The Post's Indian removal act." Jackson was responsible for Indian removal itself.  One must also wonder how that location in the White House was picked.

Neal Krucoff, Washington