Richard Moe
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"Richard Moe" (born 1936) is an American lawyer from Duluth, Minnesota. Following his graduation from Williams College and the University of Minnesota Law School,[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110302278.html Richard Moe, president of National Trust for Historic Preservation, to retire - washingtonpost.com] Moe went on to a distinguished career in government, law, and historic preservation. He served as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States during Walter Mondale's term, was a partner at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, and served as President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[http://www.preservationnation.org/about-us/press-center/fact-sheets-and-reports/president-richard-moes.html President Richard Moe's Biography]

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It's the way we've used land.

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We either save them now or we lose them forever.

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The proliferation of the chain theater has made it tough for independent historic theaters to book first-run movies and stay economically viable.

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There is a built-in incentive to demolish. The first instinct after natural disasters is almost always to demolish buildings. It is almost always wrong.

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It became a house museum in the hands of a nonprofit organization without an adequate endowment. And this is unfortunately too common a practice. These houses really need endowments, because visitation alone will never support them.

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Hundreds of these irreplaceable cinemas have been demolished, and more close every year.

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We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation's history - but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must acknowledge the historic character of one of the nation's most distinctive regions.

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It's the way we've used land. We haven't thought of it as historic.

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There is no harder glass ceiling. Madeleine broke through it by working twice as hard as a lot of her male counterparts.

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