if it didn't make up for the destruction of the old penn station, it came pretty close. unfortunately, i had to scale that back, and if i had to be ct that we're cutsinghat would a new -- discussing a new penn station at all is testament to pat's grand thinking in the first place. and it's that grand thinking that, above all else, is in any mind pat's biggest legacy and something we'll sorely miss in public life today. if you haven't had a chance to read steve's book, you should. you get a real sense for the breadth and the depth of senator moynihan's intellect and the ways in which he was able to bring his intellectual interests into the public arena. i don't know anyone who has done that. and then use them for the public good, anyone who's done that so spectacularly. his focus on penn station, for example, was the culmination of a lifelong concern with not just architecture, but with the value of great public architecture. he spent years agitating for the renovation of pennsylvania avenue in washington because of its importance as a national symbol. and it was thanks t