building was done in his administration, dissent from this, which is the origins of most political porchern -- portraiture, which is the lansdowne portrait of george washington which is our signature image in the hall of presidents. the only people who get in automatically to the portrait gallery are the peasants -- are the presidents. other people have to be voted in . and this picture, what is happening here is gilbert stuart is combining george washington create the office of the president. again, the sense in which the fraught history of the early republic, the revolution, all the rest of it are solidified in the person of washington, the inevitable, the essential man won the revolution, becomes the unanimous choice for president. and stewart creates this model of national unity in the figure of washington. so you have a whole series of symbols, again, there is this fictive space. washington did not have an open-air office in new york. this elaborate pillar. the winds of change are blowing. it does not take an art historian to see with the rainbow means. ronald reagan got his morning i