Monuments Quotes
He was referring to the House of Commons which had been bombed on May 10, 1941. He advocated making the new house larger so each member could have a seat.
This is one of the first organized efforts for the historical preservation of old buildings.
He decided to let the statue lie and not revive the image of Xerxes and instead simply proceed with the administration and governance of what was then occupied Persia. He maintained most of the Persian laws and customs including much that came from Xerxes but did not elevate the personality of the great king. However, it was not Alexander’s technique to govern by cults of personalities he and his associates erected few symbols of their own aggrandizement until after Alexander’s death when some of his associates adopted the more traditional approach to things.
When he referred to "the noose" he was connoting one of the major ways the Southern Segregationists and racists maintained white supremacy and Jim Crowe after the Civil War: Lynching. They terrorized blacks and whites who had different views by kidnapping their victims, torturing them, hanging them, and often mutilating their bodies after the murder. They never were convicted because the Southern law enforcement officers were often part of the lynch mob, the judges were usually themselves racist segregationists, and if jurors voted to convict in the few cases that went to trial, they themselves were risking lynching. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched, 3,446 were black.
Without any fanfare, TR’s official stationery had a picture of the building with the text “White House”. At the time it was built in 1792 for President John Adams, a rather pompous man, it was the largest private home in America.
When the dam was under construction, it was referred to as the “Boulder Canyon Project”. However, the Great Depression was raging and President Hoover had to run for a second term the following year with a terrible economy. Hoover’s Secretary of the Interior, named it “Hoover Dam” and on February 14, 1931, Congress made the name "Hoover Dam" official. Hoover lost to FDR, and the Interior Secretary—a Republican—sent this memo calling the dam, “Boulder Dam” for the first time. At the time Hoover was one of the least popular names in the United States. The Stock Market crash and the Depression occurred on "Hoover's watch." Hoover was blamed not only for the economic crisis, but with being hard-hearted by not using the power of the Government to help the suffering families. Ickes thought it was essential that the public overcome their fear and hopelessness. Hoover was just the image that most people wanted to forget, and this in large part motivated the name change.
