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By ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL
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RICHMOND — In the course of an extraordinary moment in Virginia history, we from the Piedmont received a striking word from Virginia’s new governor, Gerald L. Baliles.
If the granite monuments of Richmond were unmoved at what was seen and heard Saturday at the inauguration of Virginia’s 65th governor, mere mortal beings were moved and tears were shed. It might have been enough that American history was made with the simple oaths of office of a new governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general — because they were administered to a white male, to a black grandson of a slave and to a woman.
National interest was upon that. But in his inaugural address, the new governor set a very clear new set of priorities. First it was, of course and rightly, upon education.
Then secondly, he went on at length to address the coming work W “our national inheritance” and “resolve that the legacy we leave to future generations is not one of despoiled air, toxic waste and polluted waters. Our laws must be shaped and enforced . . .” He went on in tough words about preserving “Virginia the Beautiful.”
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