She writes about corridors that smelled of floor polish and fear, about Christmas trees dragged in at midnight,<\/p>\n
about the hushed arguments that echoed through the East Wing when the cameras were gone.<\/p>\n
To her, that demolished wing is not architecture; it is childhood, compromise,<\/p>\n
and the fragile belief that institutions outlive the people who occupy them.<\/p>\n
Now, watching the president\u2019s allies laugh off her anguish as \u201cpolitical theater,\u201d<\/p>\n
she understands something darker: the fight is no longer just over policy, but over memory itself.<\/p>\n
If a president can recast the people\u2019s house as a personal monument, then every future occupant is tempted to do the same.<\/p>\n
Her op-ed is less an attack than a plea\u2014that the country see the wreckage not as an upgrade<\/p>\n
in progress, but as a mirror of what it is willing to forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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