NO LONGER WILL THE 25TH PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY HAVE HIS NAME MOUNT IN ALASKA AS THE POTUS FROM OH FROM 1897 TO 1901 WILL NO LONGER HAVE THE HIGHEST PEAK HONOR SINCE ALASKAN WANT THE PREVIOUS NAME OF DANALI BE RESTORED TO THE 20,000 FEET MOUNTAIN–HIGHEST PEAK IN NORTH AMERICA–AS BACKED BY THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO TO LOOK GOOD IN FRONT OF ALASKANS–EVENTHOUGH THE LEFTIST POLICY HAS BEEN ANTI ALASKAN AND THE WHOLE STATE IS NOTHNG MORE THAN A FEDERAL OWNED LAND RATHER THAN AN INDEPENDENT STATE CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERALIS

President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley.

The historic change, coming at the beginning of a three-day presidential trip to Alaska, is a sign of how hard the White House will push during Obama's remaining 16 months as president to ensure his fight to address climate change is part of his legacy.

Renaming the mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), makes headlines for his climate quest while also creating goodwill in a state that has not been broadly supportive to the Democratic president.

Obama is slated to tour a receding glacier and meet with people in remote Arctic communities whose way of life is affected by rising ocean levels, creating images designed to build support for regulations to curb carbon emissions.

The peak was named Mount McKinley in 1896 after a gold prospector exploring the region heard that Ohioan William McKinley, a champion of the gold standard, had won the Republican nomination for president.

But Alaska natives had long before called the mountain Denali, meaning "the High One." In 1975, the state of Alaska officially designated the mountain as Denali, and has since been pressing the federal government to do the same.

Alaskans had been blocked in Congress by Ohio politicians, who wanted to stick with McKinley as a lasting tribute to the 25th U.S. president, who served from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.

Under Obama's action, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will use her legal authority to end the long debate and rename the mountain.

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