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   A New Jersey recreation center memorializing John F. Kennedy   
   won’t be renamed after President Obama following a reversal by   
   local officials.   
      
   The Willingboro Township Council voted 5-0 on Tuesday to rescind   
   its controversial decision to rename the John F. Kennedy Center,   
   which once served as the town’s former high school, as the   
   Barack Obama Center. More than 200 people reportedly applauded   
   the decision during a meeting in the building’s auditorium, the   
   Philadelphia Inquirer reports.   
      
   "We have to listen to the people,” Mayor Eddie Campbell told the   
   newspaper. “The people have spoken, and we believe in government   
   by the people.”   
      
   Campbell said the possible name change is now a dead issue   
   following Tuesday’s vote. If the potential change is ever   
   reconsidered, a public forum will be held prior to any vote, he   
   said.   
      
   The building, which opened in 1966, was named after the 35th   
   president three years after his assassination in Dallas. It was   
   closed during the 1990s when Willingboro High School was built   
   and was later reopened as a senior center, recreation hall and   
   multi-use building.   
      
   "I was 5 when Kennedy came to Willingboro Plaza in 1960,"   
   Christine Getz-Alfinito, of Willingboro, told the newspaper   
   prior to the vote. "They built this in '66, and named it after   
   Kennedy after he was assassinated. He died for this country."   
      
   The New Jersey community of roughly 31,000 had voted for Obama   
   twice, the Inquirer reports. Its five-member, all-Democratic   
   council voted in early August to change the building’s name to   
   recognize Obama. Councilman Chris Walker, who proposed the   
   switch, told the newspaper he now agrees to undo that vote.   
      
   Councilman Nathaniel Anderson also apologized to the crowd of   
   200 during the meeting. He said he failed to think through the   
   proposed change.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/03/new-jersey-town-   
   reverses-decision-to-rename-jfk-center-for-obama/?intcmp=obinsite   
      
       
      
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