Matthew Taylor

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150 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Bannon`s War Room · Episode 5509: Building Back America's Architectural Legacy · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

But what's great about it is because the fountain is back on, while you stand in that prison ship, you hear the water, the fountain, the panels are at different heights, so they emulate the rocking of the ships.

And so that is really the best place to start your experience in Freedom Plaza.

And then as you look this way, you see the giant resurrected Caesar Rodney statue that was torn down in 2020 and has been brought here to kick off this second part of the experience, which is the entire... Can I play some B-roll on the Rodney?

Well, you know, in 2020, many statues were torn down and some were destroyed.

Cesar Rodney was taken down, I believe, by actually the Delaware government.

You know, they said to protect him, but he was put in a box and he sat in a box for many, many years.

And so, thanks to people like Vince Haley, who took a great interest in Cesar Rodney, we found him, we brought him to Washington DC, we built this beautiful pedestal, as you can see behind me, out of precast concrete, and put him in the middle of this beautiful installation.

And of course, Cesar Rodney had cancer, he had emphysema, he rode through a storm through the night to sign, to show up and be the tiebreaker that would set all of this in motion.

And so,

While he's not always the common name on someone's lips when they talk about the founding fathers, he is a critical piece of why we are here at all.

And we are so honored to be able to put him up here in the middle of Freedom Plaza, a place that has represented all sorts of activism and other things.

And he is one of the original guys that got it done.

And so he sits here in the middle of the plaza, of course, with the 12 soldiers of the revolution.

We have five or six black patriots that we are honoring.

There's there's all people from all ages, all all all creeds and everywhere that came together to as ordinary people.

to create an extraordinary nation.

And so you go from Cesar Rodney's ride, you walk through what we'd like to call the Revolutionary War, the soldiers.

They have plaques that you can read to learn who they are and to understand them.

They're all in motion.

That's one thing that was very important in the design of the sculptures.

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