Michael Smith
speaker
106 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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This is a telegraph model.
So that's what this is.
It's a working model.
I mean, this is a recreation of that working model.
Working telegraph.
Samuel Morse.
Right.
And my whole thing with these was, like, look, these are pieces of American ingenuity, American exceptionalism.
They were beautiful sculptural, and they were so Barack Obama, right?
So he would be curious, and he loved it.
And again, words.
Words, and an idea, a crystallization, a three-dimensional model of American exceptionalism and invention, literally invention.
My agenda was not to make it more propagandistic.
I felt like you walk in, the room already has you.
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.
Could you make the sofas too comfortable?
You could have, and I didn't.
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