We never see Statuary Hall on television. Took an insurrection to make that happen.
Up top is a screen grab from CNN's broadcast of Trump's largely white mob moving freely between the Hall's stanchions. While watching I noticed the word "ARIZONA" carved into a plinth, so I googled "Arizona statue Capitol Hill" and Architect to the Capitol came up. Here, I learned that the statue is of former five-term Arizona senator Barry Goldwater (1953-1965, 1969-1987), a Republican "hawk's hawk" who banned racial discrimination from his family's department stores, yet voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he felt it was unconstitutional.
Trump, too, has constitutional issues, particularly when they don't go his way. Speaking of "his way," I read his Art of the Deal (1987) recently (important to read those who ail us, if only to better understand ourselves) and if there is a phrase he keeps repeating, it is this: "Never give up, never quit." No kidding!
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