CSPAN2 Book TV August 12, 2012
>> fi given that this is washington, i hardly need to give you a background of the story but i thought that i would breach alito fondital it came into being. in 18351 andrew jackson was president, the united states learned it had become the recipients of this extraordinary request, this mysterious englishmen names james smith who never set foot in the united states had left his fortune to the country to found here in washington under the name of the smithsonian and the sorrows and for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. the money was worth about half a million dollars ...
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