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Plimpton got lost in his list at one point, but despite referring to one of the contributors to the display's soundtrack as "Cecille Dion," he brought to the event his patrician sonorities and his fabled familiarity with fireworks.
It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is "sturdy and forgiving."
A generation further along, the Bushes are either actually getting less patrician or they're getting better at faking it.
Museum populism began with an unlikely figure: a patrician medievalist by the name of Thomas Hoving, who was the director of the Met from 1967 to 1977.
He now leaves that mission to two New Yorkers: Louise Slaughter, a Democrat, and Amo Houghton, a patrician Republican.