Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no.
Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool.
According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.”
They (wisely) turned down the job, so why would they comment now? Why did CNN even ask? I’m sure that whoever made the ultimate decision to pass on Trump’s little fiasco is smiling.
A responsible journalist would be happier if Sika agreed with the other side’s quoting of them. We currently only have the retelling of a conversation from one of the two parties. It’s a pretty credible retelling of the conversation, but we can’t be sure unless both parties agree thats how the conversation went.