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The Michael Vary show is on the air. United States is the birthplace, the modern birthplace.

We'd have to go back to Greece.

But the modern birthplace of democracy, self-governance.

The idea of governance by the people for the people of the people.

Democratically elected republic.

We're not a democracy because otherwise we'd be voting all the time.

We couldn't get our work done.

The idea of a nation built on ideals, living out the lofty speeches.

So people from around the world, but not to be discounted, people from the United States,

go to Washington, D.C.

As a tourist, to see our nation's capital, to tour of the White House.

You know, I don't know how many countries you can walk through the house that the leader

lives in.

You see it all.

You walk through in this old house that's not as big as you would imagine considering.

It's like when you first go to Graceland and you're an Elvis nut.

And you figure this is Elvis's house.

This thing's got to be, you know, amazing.

And then you realize that every suburb in America has a house bigger than that one because of the time it was built.

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