Agreed -- I was like "shut up! no predictions or countdowns! Just straight up play-by-play!"

Co-sign. Really great book.

I guess staff from the 2000s didn't know how prescient they were.

I never got to see the documentation, because (if I remember correctly) it included some secure areas that could not be shared publicly, as is the usual HABS practice. 3/3

it was also so that, in case of some kind of catastrophe like a fire or terrorist attack, the damaged part of the WH could be rebuilt to its exact conditions. That's one of the great things about HABS documentation, they are so detailed they can be used for reconstruction purposes. 2/n

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Damn, Ned, putting those two in the same sentence is like putting a dagger in the heart of our society.

We must always keep in the back of our minds, never forgetting, that Chuck Schumer is bad at politics.

Oh, I think it would have been only a matter of days, but opposing the federal government would have galvanized the university community. Instead he took a complicit action that only legitimizes the power of the DOJ to bully the university and will give UVA a collaborationist stooge next.

I think of Clark Kerr’s dismissal from the presidency of the University of California at the behest of Reagan. Kerr said he left as he began: “fired with enthusiasm.”

He also ran for governor to try to change state politics and to clear out the Board but lost in the primaries in 1946. But politics came around and UT now has a building named for him, among other honors. Pretty much the definition of the right side of history and sticking to his principles.

By lost his job, I mean Rainey wrote a long screed, a goddamned *rant* detailing all of the Regents' bullshit (eg they objected to Dos Passos' USA being assigned in English class) and they fired him. He did not remain a UT education professor, but landed at a much smaller college.

I think of the University of Texas in the 1930s and 40s, where Homer Rainey was fairly progressive and opposed the meddling of the board in personnel decisions (firing defenders of New Deal policies) and in reading assignments. He lost his job but was so right that the university *now lauds him*.