And there is a legacy of opportunity and wealth.
Thanks to the legacy of Communism, almost all wealth is new wealth.
The difference is abundantly apparent in California today, where the Democratic legacy of equitable distribution of wealth, through public education especially, but also in many other areas, was long ago sacrificed on the altar of property rights in Proposition 13.
"This commission has been unified," he said, his distinctly patrician accent a legacy of a childhood of wealth and privilege in New Jersey and Washington, where his father served 20 years in the House of Representatives.
Their legacy goes far beyond transfer of wealth to include building stronger families, teaching character, and passing on knowledge and wisdom.
That is a legacy of Britain's North Sea wealth, which for three decades provided all the energy the country could possibly consume.
Given that apartheid fell so recently and its legacies survive in huge disparities of wealth, education and land distribution, what is truly surprising is that the monument has survived for so long.
Not a word about Huntsman's considerable wealth, a legacy of the family business.
After Steve Jobs died, people recognized that his worth to society was defined by his legacy of innovation and not the wealth he acquired.
Abdel-Razak, as the book has it, is a dreamer and a blusterer, and a devout pan-Arabist whose all-time hero is the Egyptian nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser; the Arab of the future, he believes, will throw off the shackles of religious dogma through education, modernity being the only way to beat the legacy of colonialism, to achieve real power, wealth and self-determination.
