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First of all, mr. Kern, whats your day job . Great question, peter. Well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the American People give us. You know, we host over 30 Million People to the museum. 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 peo...

You know about this. And it leads to the question, are they misof informing congress, do you think . And if so, why . Well, first of all, they havent been asked the right question, so they havent misof informed congress. But there is such a thing as to missive misrepresentation to missive misrepresentation. And if you knew there was a terrorist getting your money, you would with duty bound to report it. And our country, our administration should not be vibrantly and robustly allowing american ta...

You get to know what the past was like. And the longing to go back, and for me, its amazing character, the combination of medical thriller and political thriller and this figure at the center of it. That is what got me interested. And even though it took me way longer than i wanted to. And certainly than my wife wanted it to, i loved living with the roosevelts. I dont want to keep you on a rainy night. Thank you very much for having me. [applause] youve youre watching 48hours of Nonfiction Autho...

Booktv is on location in washington, d. C. Joined by the under secretary of the smithsonian who has a new book out. S smith sonnians history. First of all, mr. Kern, whats your day job . Great question, peter. Well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the American People give us. You know, we host over 30 Million People to the museum. 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...

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 ...

Down. Youve got to bring them down. Our economy is doing great. Number one in the world. Were number one economy right now in the world and its not even close. Leland for more on this, lets go to allison bar deer fro barb. Reporter after President Trump made the remarks about opec, there were reports he had not spoken to anyone at the opec secretariat in vienna. Sources told the wall street journal President Trump did not talk to the opec secretary general or the saudi energy minister, talking a...

While growing up in the hamlet of Plessis in the town of Alexandria in the 1800s, Charles E. Boles realized one fact that would become the first building block in