But the Hall of Records—that ought to be finished, and now that Rushmore had a water system it could be done by wet-drilling and thus without all that killing dust. Located almost exactly halfway between the nation’s coasts, carved in the heart of a bombproof mountain where earthquakes were unknown, and in a dry climate as well, the Hall would be, as Borglum had said, a perfect storage place for records and artifacts of American history and for the preservation of such national treasurers as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Yes, both in spite of the war and because of it, the
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