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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 people around the world understand the american experience. How long have you been with the smithsonian...

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 taxpayer money to be fungiblely financed into terrorist salaries. We should just abruptly say this has...

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 Author and books on cspan twos booktv. Well, booktv is on location at the smithsonian newb museum. Nder w...

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 Relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways ...

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 adm...