Robert E. Lee V is the great-great-grandson of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The D.C. resident is also the longtime boys’ athletic director at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., which my children attend. I visited Lee in his office to talk about the role that his name, and the historical monuments that bear it, has played in the last week. Edited excerpts follow.
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So the name itself is obviously very important to your family. You’re the fifth.
My father is still alive. He’s awesome. He’s 92. . . . And then I’m the fifth, and we have a son. He’s the sixth.