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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Press conference held at the Grand Central Terminal’s famous Oyster Bar in 1975 in New York City. Source: Angela Serratore (June 26, 2018 ): History: The Preservation Battle of Grand Central. In: Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023.

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