Architecture: When It Elevates the Values of Nations

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One of the highlights of my time as a U.S. senator was meeting veterans from Indiana as they strolled along the National Mall, an open-air park in the heart of Washington, D.C., surrounded by historic buildings. Congress has already recognized the area’s aesthetic importance, declaring it “a largely completed civic work of art” and prohibiting new construction from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol Building, and from the White House to the Jef…