Michael Smith

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106 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · MS NOW Exclusive | Hope Comes Home: Inside the Obama Presidential Center - Part 1 · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

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.

So he called me and he said, I really don't like plates.

I don't want plates.

What can we have?

I don't want dishes, I think is what he said.

So I called the Smithsonian and I said, what do you have in the way of workable models of patents?

And they had like incredible, the cotton gin.

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