Myles Parks

speaker

605 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Jul

Myles Parks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The NPR Politics Podcast · Is America's 250th birthday celebration too partisan? · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

There are pictures of him, giant banners hanging from buildings all over Washington, D.C.

And then he has also said that all of these renovation projects that have been happening, including the American flag blue and the reflecting pool, all of these changes are, according to him, related to the celebration of America's 250th birthday.

And we should say there are more events that are planned.

For example, there are Patriot Games.

These are going to be athletic competitions here in the nation's capital and also an IndyCar race around the streets of D.C.

So still more to come.

And let me just add a little bit of contrast here.

I looked at speeches that then President Gerald Ford gave back in 1976.

For America's bicentennial.

And America really did it up for that birthday.

Events all over the country.

It was a big thing.

Ford was very careful about making it nonpartisan.

about keeping partisan politics out of it.

And I should note that it was a presidential election year.

He was going to be on the ballot.

He could have had a personal interest in inserting himself into these celebrations, but he didn't, if you go back through his remarks.

Well, as long as we're talking about contrasts, when I was reporting on the UFC fight a couple of weeks ago, I talked to a professor of presidential history, Julian Zelizer.

He's from Princeton.

And he was saying that there's just this obvious contrast between now and 1976, which is that so many of the events in 76 were about Trump.

Showing 101–120 of 605 · page 6 of 31