Denial Ends Proposal

The most likely path is that the White House denial becomes the operative position and no formal renaming proposal is filed. Given the sensitivity of Ford's Theatre as the site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the recent Kennedy Center court loss, aides have strong incentives to avoid a second legal and public-relations fight.

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