Michael Smith
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92 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Michael Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is there some small... Not an apple, because they're not real anymore.
yes in the oval office almost exactly as it was during those eight years it's i mean except for the view it's pretty pretty accurate i always have i have to tell you i always start to tear a little bit when you're watching you still do still because it's so representational you know it reminds of eight years and you were integral in creating this room now it's interesting though
Relatively intense financial crisis.
Well, it was just people were suffering.
There was too much instability.
And, you know, he being very moral and concerned would never, you know, it just wasn't the right time.
It wasn't the right time.
So I think, you know, it took a long time.
It gave me a chance to plan.
And I think things like this carpet we're standing on, you know, is text, right?
My saying was text.
This is a president who loves text.
I think text is so important to him.
So to give him quotes that meant something to him, which is the basis of his carpet, was something much more interesting than a vase of flowers or cherubs or...
You know, this was sort of fitted to him.
The shelves are crazy with the detail.
So one thing that's really interesting is this obsession with trying to find the detail, the thing that had meaning.
When he called me, there were plates.
These bookcases for Reagan, Bush, had held a series of Chinese experts' plates that had the presidential seal on them.
It was just not his thing.
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