Commemoration and reflection. Our speaker today is gordon kray. Gordon and i go way back to our days when they were on campus. He was from massachusetts and i was from lexington. Both of us had spent our lives in virginia. He studied history at william and mary. We were sticking cigarettes and the mouths of sculptures. Gordon has gone on to be a prominent sculptor. For many of you, if you have been to st. Matthews cathedral, you will see his culture there. You will also see one of his sculptures in washington, d. C. Most prominently in colonial williamsburg. You will find it in front of the red building at the college of william and mary. It looked worse for wear by 1958. It was put on display in front of the library. This was dedicated in the fall of 1993. Introduced by people who have been walking on the street. Now he has taken his talents to sculpting james monroe. In watching gordon work and being aware of the intensity with which he understands the person he is sculpting, it occu
Underestimated. Ive heard architectural historian describe the iconic governmental buildings in washington, d. C. As the sequel to the building here. And we start off in jamestown, which is the oldest English Speaking settlement in north america. And that was used throughout the 16 hundreds and there were multiple buildings public and private used for meeting. And then in williamsburg we built a capitol that burned down in the middle of the 17 hundreds and we rebuilt a second one and it was the second capital that we left behind when we moved here to richmond during the revolutionary war. And interestingly, mr. Jefferson who had introduced the bill to relocate to richmond, by the time we made the move, a year later, he was serving as governor and he got to oversee the process. If you think of the capitol as an essay in architecture, the primary author was thomas jefferson. And at the time we were getting ready to break ground for a new public building in richmond in 1785, jefferson had
Underestimated. Ive heard architectural historian describe the iconic governmental buildings in washington, d. C. As the sequel to the building here. And we start off in jamestown, which is the oldest English Speaking settlement in north america. And that was used throughout the 16 hundreds and there were multiple buildings public and private used for meeting. And then in williamsburg we built a capitol that burned down in the middle of the 17 hundreds and we rebuilt a second one and it was the second capital that we left behind when we moved here to richmond during the revolutionary war. And interestingly, mr. Jefferson who had introduced the bill to relocate to richmond, by the time we made the move, a year later, he was serving as governor and he got to oversee the process. If you think of the capitol as an essay in architecture, the primary author was thomas jefferson. And at the time we were getting ready to break ground for a new public building in richmond in 1785, jefferson had
Underestimated. Ive heard architectural historian describe the iconic governmental buildings in washington, d. C. As the sequel to the building here. And we start off in jamestown, which is the oldest English Speaking settlement in north america. And that was used throughout the 16 hundreds and there were multiple buildings public and private used for meeting. And then in williamsburg we built a capitol that burned down in the middle of the 17 hundreds and we rebuilt a second one and it was the second capital that we left behind when we moved here to richmond during the revolutionary war. And interestingly, mr. Jefferson who had introduced the bill to relocate to richmond, by the time we made the move, a year later, he was serving as governor and he got to oversee the process. If you think of the capitol as an essay in architecture, the primary author was thomas jefferson. And at the time we were getting ready to break ground for a new public building in richmond in 1785, jefferson had
Clair mccaskill. Im asking you to believe once again in america. America in transition. Can a divided nation unite under donald trump . From abc news its this week. Here now chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. We have big stories breaking this weekend zeroing in on americas relationship with Vladimir Putins russia. Reports the cia has concluded the russian hacking was aimed at helping donald trump defeat Hillary Clinton. A step beyond the Intelligence Communitys earlier finding that russia was trying to cast doubt on the integrity of our elections. The trump team hit back with a stunning rebuke of the cia, quote, these are the same people that sad said hussein had weapons of mass destructions. The president elect is likely to name a close ally of Vladimir Putin from the corporate world to be secretary of state. There you see exxon ceo closed a deal with putin in 2011 and in two years later he received the order of friendship. Senators from both parties raising questions about the pick