Michele Norris

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715 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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You start thinking about this in your last year in office.

So that would be 2016.

So that was 10 years ago when you're starting to conceive of it.

And that's when you start thinking about selecting the site and the architects and so forth.

How excited were you when you started to think about it?

Some people have said it's almost, oh, now I've got to do this.

It's almost like a burden.

Did it feel like an opportunity for you?

It didn't feel like a burden, but it felt like a distraction because at the time you're still working on...

presidential stuff.

So you delegate a bunch of decisions and say, I'll worry about that later.

But look, it's been a long journey.

You had COVID in between, which obviously threw off schedules and budgets in all kinds of ways.

We literally started

construction, and then suddenly COVID hits.

That changed things a lot.

We're not alone in that.

And the great thing about it, though, was I think there was a consistency of

vision on what we were trying to accomplish with the Center.

That didn't vary much.

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