The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Statue of Liberty Edition)

U.S. President Grover Cleveland Dedicates “Liberty Enlightening the World” on October 28, 1886 (slide 2)

• gift from France, another sister in liberty, celebrating the centenary of the Declaration of Independence
• without France, America would not have been free
• an alliance of friendship and respect
• yep, America will never forget this. We’ll always be friends.

French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi presents ideas for statue in 1867 (slide 6)

• liberty is a big idea, therefore, big statue
• a new colossus
• needs a hot model (not wife)

Slides from Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus” in 1883 (second last slide)

Give me:

• tired
• poor
• huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Also:

• wretched refuse
• homeless, tempest-tossed.

Taylor finds ruined statue half-buried on beach and presents scenery chewing rant number three (only slide)

• You maniacs! You blew it up!
• Damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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anniversary of dedication | original photo by bencwright