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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You know, you can't feel like it's not an impressive and sort of dramatic space because of the volume, because of the light, because of all that.
So I really wanted people to be comfortable.
I got some stuff to do.
That was what I called and kind of got from President Obama was he just wanted people, he just wanted to get down to it, but he wanted people to come at their best and come and be disarmed in a way by him.
You could have, and I didn't.
Correct.
But let me tell you something really interesting about this.
One, there are three sofas in the White House, the same, because they're constantly being touched up.
Because people, A, wipe sweat because they're nervous, their palms.
So they touch the sofa.
So sometimes it has to be touched up.
But that's not the thing that really is the most important.
The most important thing is that men who come, women probably too, but definitely men, polish their shoes.
So their shoes are newly polished.
And in their sort of anxiety, they pull their feet up and rub the shoe polish on the back of the sofas.
So the sofas have to leave all the time to take black shoe polish or brown shoe polish out.
But think about it.
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from to walk into this room, it's that feeling, that sort of sense of awe about being in this room.
I had something to do with it.
The florists of the White House called me, and they said, what kind of flowers does President Obama want on his desk?
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