Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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I know that might get me in harm's way with things,
but the point is what we're trying to say here that
this is a platform. It's a U.S. government platform
from which the U.S. government can project its
democracy and diplomacy buildings.
So the whole idea of saying platform had
some futuristic thing about it because sitting on a
platform is, at the base of the platform is ten
acres and open. And we made some provisions in this
ten acres for expansion, dealing with the future, in
case we wanted to do something further about
openness and diplomacy.
And we kind of referred to this ten acres
as a complex. Well, we started this way. A
compound, complex, and you heard Bill Miner, my
chief designer saying campus. So we've gone a long
way from an embassy through a compound, to a complex
to a campus.
So I think we're situated pretty good
anyway you look at it for the future, and we can
kind of shift, but I want you to know that I
believe, and I could be wrong, that we are going to
be having to talk about security for a long time.
Maybe not from the context of wars or whatever, but
the fact that we accommodate in our building
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