Lincoln Memorial Update

[Amy L.]

There seems to be lots of coverage today on renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Untercroft
Those will be some expensive toilets. Anyone ever been in said untercroft?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/...ubenstein/
(If not created by their staff, I am very curious who did the architectural design, and curious why they're not named. Does the National Park Service have a design and engineering department? The work is not from the office of the Architect of the Capitol...)


I've asked again and again - Is the scent of the 1850s in the 2020s?
Another question - Is the scent purposely put there?
I see the following written:
"Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) explicitly called for dividing the nation. She tweeted: 'We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this.' For once I will spare you my usual lecture on how elite southern enslavers in the 1850s made this same argument because they resented the majority rule that threatened their ability to impose their will on their Black neighbors.
"...former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) helpfully reviewed some of the governing principles of America for Greene, tweeting: 'Our country is governed by the Constitution. You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.' "

James Russell Lowell's work comes to mind.
From A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel (1846)
If I'd my way I'd had rather we should go to work and part.
They take one way, we take t'other,
Guess it wouldn't break my heart...