This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius. Germantus is here.

We're by the Thames. It's not chilly yet, but it's no longer warm like summer. The Tempts is turbulent.

There's fresh swan meat in the town. I mentioned it earlier, and some of the centurions who enjoy listening to Germanicus and I talk about this distant place called the 21st century.

They said that their wives had indeed shopped today, and there was plenty of swan meat.

I think it's very cheap.

They must have had a big, big culling in the Thames estuary. We'll have swan meat. I think it's very cheap. They must have had a big culling in the Thames estuary. We'll have swans here

well into the 21st century. They'll probably be banned from the dinner

table by then. And later on, if I remember, I have a swan recipe. For you

in the 21st century of imagined eating a swan, these are mute swans.

But we're going to address something that's equally lavish, which is the new building said to be going up at the White House.

It is a surprise to no one.

Jeb Bezos' paper in the Washington Post endorsed the plans

for the new 90,000 feet, square feet, footspace

of a building that looks very much like a Greco-Roman casino-style building that will seat 999, according to Washington Post,

at a state function. Washington Post said it's been an accumbrance and an embarrassment for

years that whenever the White House wants to enjoy a festival

or a ceremony or an inauguration, they have to put up tents on the South Lawn.

I remind you all that every time a president has made changes at the White House for 240 years,

there has been a large protest.

Jefferson is associated with the colonnades.

Large protest.

Wilson is associated with the porch that overlooks the South Lawn.

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