. >> in your book you mentioned the lady be good, the dirksen senate office building 4, i remember as a child, a new richard bass hard movie, lone survivor and i remember years later finding out that was a true story. was the dirksen senate office building 4. do you know what happened to that airplane? did they just scrap it? >> was not a fifteenth air force airplane, it was -- went down in the north african desert shortly before the fifteenth was established. navigational error, the crew flew hundreds of miles south from the african coast, ran out of fuel, landed in the desert, it was founded in 1958 and was eventually brought back to the united states for display at an air force museum. >> it is still somewhere in san. >> i imagine it is the air force museum. >> thank you, sir. thank you all very much. for coming. i would like to say i mentioned to you, james has written some wonderful books but alan in many ways is the go to for serious theaters of world war ii but he has a really brilliant book about romania and the value of the romanian oil fields and he writes about hungary, he

. >> in your book you mentioned the lady be good, the dirksen senate office building 4, i remember as a child, a new richard bass hard movie, lone survivor and i remember years later finding out that was a true story. was the dirksen senate office building 4. do you know what happened to that airplane? did they just scrap it? >> was not a fifteenth air force airplane, it was -- went down in the north african desert shortly before the fifteenth was established. navigational error, the crew flew hundreds of miles south from the african coast, ran out of fuel, landed in the desert, it was founded i

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senate office buildings. less than half of the senators are in this building. the others are spread out in the hart building. -- and the dirksen building and the hart building. it is a gorgeous building. this is built in the french beaux-arts style. the whole capitol complex was neoclassical. george washington wanted a neoclassical city. he picked the design of the white house and for the capital. he wanted a marble city. they've been in philadelphia. they even renamed a lot of the physical features in the new washington, d.c., after famous roman places. so jenkins hill became capital line hill. and gooseberry creek became the tiber river that ran through the middle of washington. they wanted to give a stature to this new government. the first major republic since the roman republic in their eyes. this was a new city for a new government. it was mostly tobacco fields and empty spaces. so they gave it a grand name and planned out major streets. that was the style. it slowly built the city. in the 1890's, there was a major exposition in chicago, the white city they called it, because it looked like a white, marble roman forum. i