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A transcript of Donald Trumps meeting with The Washington Post editorial board
By Post Opinions Staff March 21
FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington
Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board.

DONALD TRUMP: New building. Yes this is very nice. Good luck with it.

RYAN: Thank you Weve heard youre going to be announcing your foreign policy team shortly Any you can
share with us?

TRUMP: Well, I hadnt thought of doing it, but if you want I can give you some of the names Walid Phares,
who you probably know, PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives caucus, and counter-terrorism expert;
Carter Page, PhD; George Papadopoulos, hes an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy; the Honorable Joe
Schmitz, [former] inspector general at the Department of Defense; [retired] Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; and I have
quite a few more.

FRED HIATT, WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: Do you want to start out?

TRUMP: No, other than to say, were working hard, I think were all in the same business of trying to make our
country better, a better place, so we have something in common. Ive been treated very, very badly by The
Washington Post, but, you know, I guess and Im your neighbor, Im your neighbor right down the road, in
fact were actually giving a press conference there in a little while, I think your people are going to be there.
TRUMP: 2:15. I hear a lot of the press is going to be there, were going to give them a tour of the building. Its
still a little bit rough as an example, a lot of the marble surfaces all have sheetrock covering, and plywood
covering on them, so a lot of people wont see as much as they think.

HIATT: If I could, Id start by asking is there a secretary of state and a secretary of defense in the modern era
who you think have done a good job? Who do you think were the best?

TRUMP: Well, because I know so many of them, and because in many cases I like them, I hate to get totally
involved. I think George Shultz was very good, I thought he was excellent. I can tell you, I think your last
secretary of state and your current secretary of state have not done much.

HIATT: What in particular?

TRUMP: Well, I think, number one, we shouldnt have given the money back. I think, number two, we should
have had our prisoners before the negotiations started. We should have doubled up the sanctions.

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Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65

By MICHAEL KIMMELMANMARCH 31, 2016

Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose soaring structures
left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process
reshaped architecture for the modern age, died in Miami on Thursday. She
was 65.
Ms. Hadid contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden
heart

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office, Zaha

Hadid Architects in London, said. She was not just a rock star and a designer
of spectacles. She also liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole
new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for
unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces but also for emotional
ambiguity. Her buildings elevated uncertainty to an art, conveyed in the odd
ways one entered and moved through those buildings and in the questions
her structures raised about how they were supported.
Her work, with its formal fluidity also implying mobility, speed, freedom
spoke to a worldview widely shared by a younger generation. I am non-

European, I dont do conventional work and I am a woman, she once told an

interviewer. On the one hand all of these things together make it easier
but on the other hand it is very difficult.
Strikingly, Ms. Hadid never allowed herself or her work to be pigeonholed by
her background or her gender. Architecture was architecture: it had its own
reasoning and trajectory. And she was one of a kind, a path breaker. In 2004,
she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architectures Nobel;
the first, on her own, to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal, Britains top
architectural award, in 2015.
Inevitably, she stirred nearly as much controversy as she won admiration,
provoking protests from human rights advocates when her $250 million
cultural center in Baku, Azerbaijan, forced the eviction of families from the
site. A commission to design a stadium in Qatar a sensuous plan that
more than a few observers likened to female anatomy became, in truth
unfairly, a lightning rod for critics who decry the treatment of foreign
laborers by the government there. She sued for defamation one critic who
falsely reported that 1,000 workers had died building her stadium before
construction had even begun. She won a settlement and an apology.
After winning the competition to design a new stadium for the 2020 Olympics
in Tokyo, Ms. Hadids firm was fired by Japanese authorities, over accusations
about looming cost overruns, a decision Ms. Hadid loudly declared unjust and
political.