the Library of Congress is made up of three different structures: the Jefferson Building, the Adams Building, & the Madison Building

[basquebromance]

If a visitor from another planet who knew nothing of the United States were asked to extrapolate the country’s history from these three government buildings, the alien likely would hypothesize a sad story of national decline.

The Jefferson Building is a magnificent edifice, with dazzling décor and a dome to rival the Capitol’s. The mosaics and paintings that adorn the interior, mostly allegories on the progress of knowledge and world culture, seem to be the product of a strong, prosperous, and confident civilization.

The Adams Building, plainer and more functional, suggests a nation reduced in circumstances yet retaining some style and spirit, evident in the structure’s jazzy Art Deco flourishes.

But the hideous and windowless slab of the Madison Building, with its drab rooms and bleak, undecorated corridors, could only be the work of an impoverished society fallen under the yoke of a mindless and brutal dictatorship

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[Calypso Jones]

well we gone have to tear those down now aren't we?

 

[basquebromance]

well we gone have to tear those down now aren't we?

yes

 

[whitehall]

Which building did Clinton staffer Sandy Berger steal documents from?

 

[basquebromance]

Which building did Clinton staffer Sandy Berger steal documents from?

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