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I thought the discussions were relevant, fascinating, intelligent, and we cannot thank you enough for participating in our conference. Secondly, i hope a lesson from the conversation was that if the United States withdraws, the world gets worse and that if we expect to be secure at home, we better worry about the lives of others abroad. I want to its my honor to introduce the last conversation the nexttolast conversation, soon to be last conversation. I have known bill burns for quite a while because during my presidency, he was the ambassador to russia. By the way, the guy is fluent in russian. He was the number three at the state department. A really big job. He is now the head of the Central Intelligence agency. He works at the george bush intelligence center, which my case is not oxymoronic. We are really lucky to have him here today. He is knowledgeable. He is a tho ....
Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top that slavery wasnt visible. And we want to make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullbury row, that main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this was part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now, were actually just near jeffersons main house, the main plantation street at monticello, its about 1,300 feet. Through archaeology and documentary research, we foe that over 20 workshops storehouses and dwellings lined this street. There were enslaved families here, there were indentured servants and most of these were jefferson and his white family. So this ....
We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. If you have come up to this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have end in slave people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible, and we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. All this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from jefferson and talk about the other people who essentially made his life possible. Just now, we are actually near jeffersons main house, the palladian mansion he built throughout his life, and we are standing next to military row, which is the main plantation street at monticello, through archaeology and documentary research, we know that over 20 workshops, storehouses, and dwellings lined this street. There were in slaved families he ....