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world. What we seek in our faith, what we seek in our art, what we seek in our relationships, what we seek in the communication and the compromise with each other is that strange calculus when one and one equals three. I've been interested in that all along. I've been interested in a whole that was greater than the sum of the parts and tried to ask the question how the impossible of one plus one could equal three. And I think that somehow going back, as I was thinking about this evening, to that moment when I knew I wanted to be a filmmaker with my father who was trying to mask the tears that were streaming down his cheeks at It's a Wonderful Life and all of its poignancy about life and failure and success and what we leave and who we are. But I realize that we always have a choice in this country. We can choose Bailey-less [Bailey was the character played by Jimmy Stewart] Bedford Falls had metastasized into a place of independent free agents where everybody did whatever they wanted, that we serve no masters but our own selfinterest. And I think Sen. Richard Durbin (IL) greets Burns after the program. we go back to the extraordinary words that begin the creation of our country, to live in Bedford Falls, the community "We, the People," and understand in which Jimmy Stewart was an active that we are talking about forming a participant, where he understood in the very worst of times we were bound more perfect union. And it's in the spirit of that that I accept this award to each other inextricably. Or we could and thank you from the bottom of live in Potterville, the imaginary nightmy heart. mare of the world in which a George ChaiRman'S "FRed SChwengel awaRd" One of the enduring legacies of the Society's anniversary year will be the Chairman's "Fred Schwengel Award." The inaugural award was presented to Robert L. Breeden, Publications Consultant, 1962-present; Vice President, USCHS, 1991-93, and Chairman of the Board, USCHS, 1993-2000. Breeden was the force behind the Society's We, the People guidebook to the Capitol, first unveiled in 1963 and now in its 16th edition. The award was accepted on his behalf by Cynthia Breeden Scudder. 50 THE CAPITOL DOME USCHS board chairman, Hon. E. Thomas Coleman; Cynthia Breeden Scudder; Ken Burns; USCHS president, Hon. Ron Sarasin WINTER 2013