2018 (Soffen & Lu 2017). Perhaps the geography of Washington D.C. was his inspiration. After all, the Potomac serves as a stark delineation of President’s vision—on the East bank, the Department of State (DoS) faces a 33% slash to its budget (Soffen & Lu 2017), whereas on the West bank, the Department of Defense (DoD) enjoys a 9% proposed spending increase (Soffen & Lu 2017. On the same day, over 230 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin unveiled his latest invention, the bifocal (“On This Day,” 2017)