Unfortunately, this is more about protecting the legacy of a ‘great man.’
I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.
The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.
With the midterm elections safely in the rearview mirror, Obama is on legacy patrol.
But at 45, Branch died of a reported suicide, leaving behind family, friends and a legacy that goes beyond the beauty industry.
He came more and more to feel that Raby was a legacy left by Hetty to him.
The cheque was returned, the legacy refused, the writer being in no need of money.
He had had several talks with Bradley and with her about her legacy from Judge Knowles.
He told of the lawyer's letter, omitting for the present the news of the legacy.
And then, in this December of the year 1910, fell as from a clear sky the legacy of a grandson.
late 14c., "body of persons sent on a mission," from Old French legatie "legate's office," from Medieval Latin legatia, from Latin legatus "ambassador, envoy," noun use of past participle of legare "appoint by a last will, send as a legate" (see legate). Sense of "property left by will" appeared in Scottish mid-15c.