Once the Lincoln dedication was out of the way, Borglum turned his energies to other matters. He was now going to bring about some “constructive readjustments,” he wrote to Francis Case. And if Case wondered what the sculptor meant by that, he did not have to wonder very long. For now Borglum began an all-out campaign to get rid of Spotts, Boland, the commission, the Park Service, and his present contract, and to gain for himself the complete control of Rushmore.
