Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln… Et bientôt Trump ? Pour le président américain, ce serait une "bonne idée". Voici l'histoire du mont Rushmore.
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00:00The blasting of Washington's chin, and the first step in the world's largest monument is finished.
00:26Dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt,
00:28here will be four great presidents, or should I have said five?
00:32Ten thousand years from now,
00:35I think we can meditate and wonder whether our descendants, because I think they'll still be here,
00:42what they will think about us.
00:58When do you think this work will be completed, Mr. Baldwin?
01:00I'm trying to finish it so that the figures will be done by 1935, sufficiently to allow the president to unveil it.
01:28He actually believed that the Klan platform was a worthy platform.
01:58I'm allowing an extra three inches on all the features of the various presidents in order to provide the stone for the wear and tear of the elements,
02:13which cuts the figure down, or cuts the granite down, an inch in a hundred thousand years.
03:28Great stone faces of four presidents stand in lonely silence as the last workmen leave the late Gutzon Borglum's mighty project.
03:39Machinery is dismantled, for with the death of the sculptor last spring, all but clean-up work was abandoned.
03:58To be continued...