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Oliver North helped bring light to the mismanagement of the Smithsonian by Lawrence Small.

Selling America’s Heritage

It Was Easier In Hanoi

1 posted on 03/15/2008 11:31:41 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Ga. Tech Head Picked to Lead Smithsonian

Go Dawgz!!

2 posted on 03/15/2008 11:47:58 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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Clough has been a great President of Georgia Tech. He will be hard to replace.


3 posted on 03/15/2008 11:48:57 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Is Obama the AntiChrist? Otherwise, why are so many so mesmerized?)
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Wow, a big loss for Georgia Tech. This guy is a great leader.


5 posted on 03/15/2008 12:08:14 PM PDT by Toskrin (Bringing you global cooling since 1999)
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6 posted on 03/15/2008 12:13:11 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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Now if they can temper their lefty slant and global warming, I mean climate change, mantra. They are not as bad as Nat Geo, but I did not resubscribe from my gift subscription. 75% of their articles are great I must admit. The letter to the mag are hilarious from the lefties always complaining about some sort of coverage.


7 posted on 03/15/2008 12:28:55 PM PDT by doodad
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In the future, I hope that the Smithsonian opens branch museums in literally every State, in a partnership with the State governments.

The idea being to have a permanent exhibition of the massive amount of “overflow” exhibits currently warehoused by the Smithsonian, particular to that State, combined with that State’s historical museum exhibits and traveling national exhibits.

That is, the Smithsonian has an enormous amount of treasure that is never displayed because of space constraints. To loan such treasures to the States as semi-permanent exhibits would strongly augment their own historical museums, and return them to public view, where they were intended.

Importantly, the Smithsonian has tried to do this in recent years, but with wildly inappropriate “theme” annexes. One such in my area was a combination of mistakes.

In a building complex that was a white elephant architectural abomination and a repeated business failure, they planned to put an African-American exhibit. In a city where blacks are less than 1% of the population.

Fortunately, it did not come to pass.

In federal standards, the expense is small, mostly shipping and handling. The State museums would be in charge of the displays, just like any other museum loan.


8 posted on 03/15/2008 2:12:08 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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