In Lafayette Square Across The Street From The White House
by Cora Wandel
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In Lafayette Square Across The Street From The White House
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Cora Wandel
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I remember very well when this photograph was taken, it was November 8, 2016, Election Day here in America. The barbed wire fence that is behind the equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson and before the distant White House was already in place so construction could begin on Pennsylvania Avenue for the buildings that, on the south side nearest the Executive Mansion, the newly inaugurated President and family and friends could watch the elaborate Inaugural Parade that would pass before them on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017, and on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue an equally large building would be built for the mass of media that would be present to cover the new president and the continuous stream of parade participants.
If you have visited Pennsylvania Avenue over the past 35 years, you may have seen the anti-nuclear vigil with its plastic tent and many signs that is situated on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, on the edge of Lafayette Square, that faces directly across the street at the White House. In this photograph, because of the Inaugural construction that was beginning, the vigil was moved back in the park, and does not face the White House. Philipos Melaku-Bello sits at the tent's opening and talks to a man about the vigil's causes.
There are also other people in this photograph -- Lafayette Square, and Pennsylvania Avenue when it is not fenced off, are popular places for people to stroll, talk on their phones, sight see, take pictures (like me), or just hang out on benches, and get as close as they can to the White House (and yes, in the far distance, that is the Washington Monument).
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November 9th, 2016
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