Jon Fasman
speaker
573 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It may have been done to keep Donald Trump, who is famously vindictive and doesn't like President Obama from tampering with its budget.
The CEO of the Foundation told me that every former living president will attend the groundbreaking ceremony on the eighteenth.
President Trump will not.
He was not invited.
Most of these libraries go really heavy on the pomp.
Ronald Reagan's has a decommissioned Air Force One along with his limousines in a helicopter.
Lyndon Johnson's features a life-size, moving, talking puppet of the president, telling hokey jokes.
It is exactly as weird as it sounds.
Franklin Roosevelt preserves the cozy private study where he received visitors.
A lot of them, including Obama's, let visitors walk around life size replicas of the Oval Office as they were decorated during that president's tenure.
The main attractions though are the museums, many of which border on hagiography, though interestingly that can change after the president's death.
I went to the Roosevelt Library earlier this spring and was struck that it featured exhibits about his mistresses and some really uncomfortable questions about why he was so reluctant to accept Jewish refugees during the Second World War.
Obama's library befitting the man himself is attractive, worldly, and invested in culture as well as politics.
The exterior may be chilly and grey, but the interior is very warm, there's lots of dark wood.
The art is contemporary and ambitious and well chosen.
And the grounds are well planned too.
Michelle Obama, who grew up nearby, insisted on a steep sledding hill because she never had one.
Like Obama's presidency, the museum's permanent exhibitions eschew simple patriotism in favor of complexity, emphasizing America's heritage as a creedle rather than blood and soil nation, and it doesn't shy away from uncomfortable questions.
The opening exhibition on Democracy's Building Blocks features the Declaration of Independence next to Native American positions against removal.
The civil rights movement features prominently, as you can imagine, and the sections on Mr.
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