Michele Norris
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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We've got contradictions.
and embody the country's contradictions.
And so I do think that what's striking is right now we've got a president in the White House who seems to have embraced and embodied, in a way we haven't seen in a very long time, this other story.
And
Does that make your story more important?
I don't know if it makes it more important, but I am glad that we are planting a flag, that we are hopefully creating a repository, a vessel through which people can be reminded of this better story.
Maybe a way to think about the Presidential Center and what at least we tried to create is,
is some touchstones, some markers, some tools for people to just be reminded of, oh yeah, this is what our democracy is.
This is who we are.
We don't have to distrust each other.
We don't have to hate each other.
We don't have to scapegoat each other.
We could actually...
try to find common ground and work together to do some good.
The idea of these two stories is interesting because America has been having an argument with itself.
We say one thing in our founding documents.
We do something quite different in the way that we construct society.
And the argument that you're talking about and the stories that you're talking about, the exclusion of people of color, the exclusion of black people, the exclusion of women, the Chinese Exclusion Act, these are things that we know are true to the American story, but they don't always appear in presidential libraries.
You decided to travel a different path.
you decided to tell a different story in a different way so that you lean into that sort of thorny terrain around the founding contradictions.
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