Lindsay Halligan

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14 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 26 Sep

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What I saw when I was going through the museums personally was an overemphasis on slavery.
And I think there should be more of an overemphasis on how far we've come since slavery.
Our country is a country of progress, and it's the greatest country in the world.
And we should be able to take our kids, our students through the Smithsonian and feel proud when we leave.
There's a lot of history to our country, both positive and negative, but we need to keep moving forward.
We can't just keep focusing on the negative.
My pleasure.
Well, so what we're going to do in the letter, we requested basically an audit for the first time ever of the Smithsonian.
We want to see how these placards in these museums have become written in such a ideological fashion.
And we also want to see how the exhibits are voted on and how they become really what the public sees.
The Smithsonian has 17 to 20 million visitors a year.
We need it to represent our country in a positive way.
We're approaching America's 250th wonderful birthday, and we want the Smithsonian to represent really what our country was founded upon, grit, resilience, perseverance, and it's
you know, our goal is for ideology to go, but knowledge and trust to remain.
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