Audace
Machado
Pith to me: Institutionalization and storytelling. The world in general and the
America in particular, owe the idea of this “smallest” Presidential ‘Palace’s
effective architecture to late President Washington. , could it be in some
other places in the world, the building and the space - let me call it the
‘museum’- would be named after the person. Believe me, I am not totally against
the idea of naming areas, national or not, after people’s name - e.g., Kenyatta
and Moi, Kamuzu, Nyerere, Joshua Nkomo, etc.,Airports-; theEmbassy in Burundi. The American logic and
philosophy is also the perpetuation of good deeds, by independent people as
well as political and else ones through this kind of culture of memory. Example?
Let’s just think of Charles “Chuck”
Feeney. I mean, in this country, memories is
about and after good as well as bad models. Through the few
things I learned about Americans, they assume many of their errors the same
they glorify their success.
The only problem is, do those persons
deserve their names to be such honored? On the opposite side, it is really
absurd to not reckon some people’s deeds, in this world. By the way, I wonder
if the white house’s space is bigger than the States’
Particularities from my understanding: Late Washington initiated this monument and Adams’ were the first to live in there, did I learn from the Freeman repeals: "Inside the White House". Just to illustrate opposite of this civic, national and long-term philosophy, the only / first time I’ve got ‘the chance’ to shake the hands of –late- Wa Mutharika, King Mswati III, Mugabe, and some others including and through Ngwenya, that was inside the Blantyre palace, named after the Scottish explorer David Livingston. And I had to pass hard competition steps to pass those long and human fences. And then, I half understood what has been the real meaning of Hilary Clinton say: “Obama, to be an ordinary President doesn't need to mixture with ordinary people.” I don’t mean that every person-even American- gets in and out the White House as he/she wishes. But the chances look higher than in other countries.
White House is presented as a place where the powerful person makes himself small: you will see how the highly intellectual Bill Clinton warmed up his peer “Elstine” welcoming event’s steps. You will see how some
less important persons –Butler- become icons, and not only
inside the basement of the monument.
At the same time, what’s on all along the Constitution, the Pennsylvania or the New York Avenues; the social/political apparent or hidden feelings inside Farragut West, McPherson Sq., Federal Triangle or Metro Center; what people talk and don’t –nearby-inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, etc., I mean all the professionalism, hatred, beauty, luxury, skills, fear, misery, etc., inside Washington DC and all over through the American people, it is also reported “Inside The White House”.
Lessons I got from that former yellow colored “House”: 'I served Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan.’ That’s Eugene Allen who was a butler in the “American Private-Republic House”, for 34 years. I enjoyed reading that drama about Allen, from the Telegraph Magazine of 2008, as Obama was being inaugurated. In 2013, a friend of mine invited me to watch the “Butler” in a cinema hall in Cleveland, and only then, I understood how a simple person as a cook is important in our life. In addition to this human and inside privacy, I learned two political facts: 1) nobody has ever reported any American Presidential term lasting more than 10 years, whatever powerful would be the ‘Man’. That’s how, to respect what people decided together, brings to “Highness”. That’s the main American Presidency
political protection, maybe. 2)
People need to understand how we become politically powerful. In some places,
unfortunately, the sector is conquered by the most criminals. But, politics in
general is becoming more and more business, and this is why, I guess, women are
becoming more and more Presidents in the world: the power doesn’t belong to
‘people’, but to highly skilled persons and to wealthy people. Didn’t you hear
two persons in Ohio naming “Business as Usual”? Look, Bush from the Banker, the
Secret Agent, the Businessman, and then the President! Though I have been
reading and listening Obama’s, if I had the chance to meet him face to face,
I’d put a silly and simple question from an alien, because,…, then, women can
play politics, depending on they involvement, fights and understanding the
system.
Particularities from my understanding: Late Washington initiated this monument and Adams’ were the first to live in there, did I learn from the Freeman repeals: "Inside the White House". Just to illustrate opposite of this civic, national and long-term philosophy, the only / first time I’ve got ‘the chance’ to shake the hands of –late- Wa Mutharika, King Mswati III, Mugabe, and some others including and through Ngwenya, that was inside the Blantyre palace, named after the Scottish explorer David Livingston. And I had to pass hard competition steps to pass those long and human fences. And then, I half understood what has been the real meaning of Hilary Clinton say: “Obama, to be an ordinary President doesn't need to mixture with ordinary people.” I don’t mean that every person-even American- gets in and out the White House as he/she wishes. But the chances look higher than in other countries.
White House is presented as a place where the powerful person makes himself small: you will see how the highly intellectual Bill Clinton warmed up his peer “Elstine” welcoming event’s steps. You will see how some
At the same time, what’s on all along the Constitution, the Pennsylvania or the New York Avenues; the social/political apparent or hidden feelings inside Farragut West, McPherson Sq., Federal Triangle or Metro Center; what people talk and don’t –nearby-inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, etc., I mean all the professionalism, hatred, beauty, luxury, skills, fear, misery, etc., inside Washington DC and all over through the American people, it is also reported “Inside The White House”.
Lessons I got from that former yellow colored “House”: 'I served Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan.’ That’s Eugene Allen who was a butler in the “American Private-Republic House”, for 34 years. I enjoyed reading that drama about Allen, from the Telegraph Magazine of 2008, as Obama was being inaugurated. In 2013, a friend of mine invited me to watch the “Butler” in a cinema hall in Cleveland, and only then, I understood how a simple person as a cook is important in our life. In addition to this human and inside privacy, I learned two political facts: 1) nobody has ever reported any American Presidential term lasting more than 10 years, whatever powerful would be the ‘Man’. That’s how, to respect what people decided together, brings to “Highness”. That’s the main American Presidency
