What do geologists know about landscape aesthetics anyway? Leave it to a guy who wrote a history of Belgian Congo colonial education, to object to the bureaucratic abuse of the deep state.
FOIA requests indicate the communication and possible influence of the former House Speaker on the Interior Department.
WASHINGTON — Three weeks before the National Park Service denied an activist group’s request to erect a giant statue of a nude woman on the National Mall, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke received an email from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).
The Oct. 3 message forwarded an exchange between Gingrich, his wife, Callista, and Claire Christensen, the co-author of his 2016 book about the election of President Donald Trump. In it, the three seemed perturbed by the proposal to place the sculpture near the Washington Monument for three months.
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