Whenever an American is at the seat of his Government, however traveled and cultured he may be, he ought to find a city of stately proportion, symmetrically laid out and adorned with the best that there is in architecture, which would arouse his imagination and stir his patriotic pride.
Calvin Coolidge: “Whenever an American is at the seat of his Government, however traveled and cultured he may be, he ought to find a city…”
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Coolidge envisions a capital city that inspires pride and imagination in its visitors.
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