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polit politics. the leader of this nation has a clear and immediate challenge to go to work immediately to restore proper respect for law and order in this land and not just prior to election day either. cspan.org/thecontenders. each week american history tv visits museums and historic places to learn what artifacts can reveal about the history of the united states. next, a visit to the first ladies exhibit at the smiths smithsonian s national museum of american history. lisa kathleen graddy is the curator at the smithsonian, tell us where we re at in the american history museum. it is the ninth version of the first ladies exhibit since it began in 1913. so, we re almost 100 years old and we re the longest lived exhibit at the smithsonian museum. this iteration just opened up, tell us the concept behind it. we tried to get new things here. the challenge is always to balance. to balance the great interest in the dresses and the china with other kinds of stories a