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My job is to help make the museums work help the directors do their job. I have to take care of budgets and politics and Public Relations and things but also the content of the work what we do what we show the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. How long have you been with the smithsonian . I first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the United States, and then permanently since 1994. As the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense . Well, we have three under secretary, one a Earth Science one is finance administration, and im for everything else. I have a ph. D. In anthropology. All right. American history in 101 objects. Where did you get the idea . Well theres a fellow who runs the british museum, Ewen Mcgregor and he wrote a book that was successful, and he said, richard do one on American History. Well i didnt have to think about it too long. My wife is a public schoolteacher in the dc area and

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