American History Museum - Americana, Presidential Assassinations, and First Ladies

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<p>So you can imagine like that's why they're trying to preserve this.</p>
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<p>So you can go in the room, you can see it.</p>
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<p>It is, it is really neat to see.</p>
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<p>And walking in there, they'll give you the history of it and then</p>
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<p>walking out, they give you the history of the preservation of it.</p>
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<p>So that's probably the biggest.</p>
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<p>Artifact, but I, I think there's one that's right up there with it.</p>
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<p>What was that?</p>
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<p>Welcome to Talk with History.</p>
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<p>I'm your host Scott, here with my wife and historian Jim.</p>
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<p>Now tonight we are gonna talk about a complex of 21 museums.</p>
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<p>Established with funds from James Smithson lived from 1765 into</p>
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<p>1829, a British scientist who left his estate to the United States</p>
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<p>to found an establishment for the increase in diffusion of knowledge.</p>
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<p>The specific museum we're gonna talk about today is, has a mission statement</p>
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<p>of empowering people to create.</p>
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<p>A just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and</p>
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<p>sharing the complexity of our past.</p>
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<p>So Jen, what are we talking about</p>
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<p>today?</p>
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<p>We're talking about one of the Smithsonians That's right.</p>
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<p>The American</p>
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<p>History Museum.</p>
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<p>This wasn't like our typical museum video.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>I didn't get to tag along.</p>
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<p>But you got to go through the American History Museum, um, which</p>
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<p>you could probably see go to 10 times and still not see everything.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>So what, tell us about some of the things that you got to see while</p>
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<p>you were there.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>Oh my gosh.</p>
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<p>So the American History Museum is very beside the, uh, new,</p>
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<p>uh, African American museum.</p>
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<p>That's right.</p>
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<p>So if you can't get tickets to the African American Museum, because that is the new</p>
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<p>museum, it's right beside there and it doesn't seem to be as popular and crowded.</p>
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<p>Like you said, it's one of the Smithsonians and there's many of</p>
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<p>them in DC Air space is a big one.</p>
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<p>Uh, natural History Museum is a big one.</p>
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<p>And this is American History Museum.</p>
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<p>I will say the biggest artifact that is the draw in that museum is the</p>
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<p>actual original Star Spangled Banner.</p>
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<p>From the war of 1812, that Francis Scott Keysaw above Fort McHenry that</p>
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<p>causes him to write dip poem that will become on national anthem.</p>
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<p>Yeah,</p>
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<p>that's one of the things I looked up some just interesting</p>
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<p>facts about the museum, um, that I'll share a little bit later.</p>
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<p>So hang out with us, but that's one of the ones that they specifically call out.</p>
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<p>There's, as I was doing, just.</p>
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<p>Kind of like pull on my, do my own very brief research on, on the museum,</p>
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<p>there's a couple items that they specifically call out over and over</p>
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<p>on various different websites as you look, look at, uh, as you kind of read</p>
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<p>about the American History Museum.</p>
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<p>Um, and that was definitely one of the ones that kind of got</p>
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<p>repeated across different websites.</p>
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<p>And you can tell.</p>
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<p>That is a protected artifact.</p>
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<p>Oh yeah.</p>
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<p>It is In a in glass closed room.</p>
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<p>It is under no light.</p>
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<p>It is in a dark room.</p>
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<p>You're not allowed to video it or photograph it, and you have</p>
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<p>to look at it under black light.</p>
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<p>Really?</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>They're protecting the colorization.</p>
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<p>They're protecting the threat.</p>
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<p>And it is ginormous.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>It</p>
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<p>sit, it's like 30 feet by</p>
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<p>34.</p>
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<p>It is a huge flag.</p>
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<p>I mean, if you can imagine.</p>
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<p>Seeing it and I, you can watch our video from Fort McHenry when I talk about</p>
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<p>this, the huge flagpole that it's on, first of all, above Fort McHenry , and</p>
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<p>then you got key out in the harbor.</p>
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<p>Looking at it, I can see why it would strike awe in you,</p>
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<p>because it's a huge banner.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it's probably one of those, like if you ever drive around</p>
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<p>certain parts of the south, I always noticed it, like you, uh, you drive by</p>
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<p>those car dealerships that have these just massive, huge American flags.</p>
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<p>Huge American flags.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>It's</p>
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<p>like that, like one of those, like one of those, uh, and it's hand zone.</p>
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<p>So you can imagine like, that's why they're trying to preserve this.</p>
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<p>So you can go in the room, you can see it.</p>
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<p>It is, it is really neat to see.</p>
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<p>And walking in there, they'll give you the history of it and then</p>
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<p>walking out, they give you the history of the preservation of it.</p>
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<p>So that's probably the biggest.</p>
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<p>Artifact, but I, I think there's one that's right up there with it.</p>
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<p>What</p>
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<p>was that?</p>
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<p>It's the hat that Lincoln was wearing.</p>
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<p>The nineties.</p>
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<p>That's so, so we made it, we kind of made an ad hoc video with this.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>Cuz Jen took a bunch of, uh, Video with like her phone.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>And so I, I tried something a little bit different from a video</p>
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<p>perspective of trying to, I put a much shorter video together, um, just</p>
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<p>basically a bunch of, kind of shorter clips, but that was one of the ones</p>
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<p>that</p>
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<p>I thought was cool.</p>
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<p>It blew me away.</p>
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<p>I was like, this is the actual top hat that Abraham Lincoln was wearing.</p>
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<p>To Ford's Theater the night.</p>
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<p>He was shot in April of 1865, and it's so neat.</p>
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<p>You can see the beaver skin on it and the wear, and you can see there is a.</p>
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<p>Red ribbon, a red ribbon, a black ribbon around it, a morning ribbon, because his</p>
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<p>son had died while he was in office, and he keeps it on because of all the men</p>
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<p>that are killed during the Civil War.</p>
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<p>Now it looked like, was it like cast in bronze or was it, what was I</p>
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<p>looking at there?</p>
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<p>That's, that's the beaver skin.</p>
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<p>Oh, it's just that column.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>It's, it's, it's.</p>
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<p>Starting to fade.</p>
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<p>Okay?</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>I didn't,</p>
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<p>I didn't realize that.</p>
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<p>So another thing, you know, we, I talk about this stuff as a museum professional,</p>
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<p>how much do we protect the artifact?</p>
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<p>Because your whole job is to protect the artifact for future generations.</p>
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<p>That's your job as a Houston museum, conservator and archivist.</p>
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<p>But it's also to educate the current public of the past.</p>
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<p>Through the artifact, through the story.</p>
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<p>So you have to weigh both.</p>
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<p>You're trying to show it and keep, so again, the, it's encased.</p>
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<p>It's in a no light, natural light room, and.</p>
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<p>Trying to keep it again under, it's probably under some kind of humidity.</p>
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<p>You always have to worry about humidity.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>Uh, and temperature.</p>
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<p>And so there's usually a little gauge inside there, but it,</p>
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<p>they want you to see it too.</p>
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<p>I mean, you could protect it forever in a dark room and in, but who, yeah.</p>
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<p>Nobody would see it.</p>
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<p>No.</p>
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<p>See, that's interesting.</p>
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<p>And I didn't realize that because even though I made the vi, I made the video</p>
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<p>based on your, your phone video footage.</p>
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<p>That's, that's what I thought I was looking at, was.</p>
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<p>Was they had like casted in bronze or was something like that, but it was</p>
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<p>just that color had, it had faded, so it was no longer that dark black.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>It was almost, again, on the video it kind of, it looks like this almost</p>
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<p>copper.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>The beaver skin is fading.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So it's that kind of lighter brown, mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>Type type color.</p>
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<p>Um,</p>
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<p>so they had the hat and they had a.</p>
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<p>Flag that was laid on his coffin.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So those are the two things.</p>
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<p>But they have an, a interesting area, which I, this is the area,</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>uh, it's located in kind of a president assassination area.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>They have a whole.</p>
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<p>That, that's kind of like one of the, I'll call it a wing or, or section.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>Was like a whole presidential history section.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:05</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:05</time>
<p>Area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:05</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:05</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:06</time>
<p>And that's why you were there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:07</time>
<p>And then we'll talk a little about some of the first lady stuff that you got to see.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:10</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:07:10</time>
<p>Um, so, but, but so they had like a whole presidential assassination.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:13</time>
<p>So they had the cuffs that the Lincoln conspirator swore.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:16</time>
<p>That's right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:17</time>
<p>And it shows you like the spacing that they put between them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:19</time>
<p>They have the big key that they use for their cells.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:24</time>
<p>And one of the things that I thought was really neat is for President Garfield,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:29</time>
<p>uh, Alexander Graham Bell was brought in to find this kind of magnetic</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:35</time>
<p>device to find the bullet in him, and it kept giving false readings because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:42</time>
<p>he was laying on a metal spring bed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:45</time>
<p>And so it wasn't quite working.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:47</time>
<p>And they have that device Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:49</time>
<p>In there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:49</time>
<p>So that was neat for me.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:51</time>
<p>Cause I had worked at the James Garfield house and they have the bed that he was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:54</time>
<p>laying on at the James Garfield house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:07:56</time>
<p>But it was neat to see the actual device that Alexander Bell used.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:00</time>
<p>Uh, and then they have, um, other little things like they have the.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:05</time>
<p>The playbill from our American cousin.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:09</time>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:09</time>
<p>So the show that Lincoln had seen that night, and they had some things</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:13</time>
<p>from John Wilkes Booth and some, some of that other artifacts as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:18</time>
<p>But the whole president's section, like you said, had a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:22</time>
<p>whole wing for the first ladies.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:26</time>
<p>And in that wing for the first ladies, there is a dress</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:29</time>
<p>from, uh, Mary Todd Lincoln.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:30</time>
<p>So you could kind of see what, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:32</time>
<p>We showed that in the video, her size and what she looked like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:34</time>
<p>But most of the gowns they have are the, uh, um, inaugural ball gowns that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:39</time>
<p>the first ladies would wear that night.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:41</time>
<p>And that's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:41</time>
<p>what, that's what most, I mean, 99% of people, if they think of like,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:45</time>
<p>Hey, you know, the, the first lady in a dress, that's what they're gonna think of.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:49</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:49</time>
<p>Right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:49</time>
<p>Because that's kind of the most public they're likely ever gonna be.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:53</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:54</time>
<p>So,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:54</time>
<p>and I always like looking at gowns.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:56</time>
<p>I, same thing when we saw Princess dies gowns in England.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:00</time>
<p>You get the, a good sense of the size of the person.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:02</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:02</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:03</time>
<p>So we got to see like Barbara Bush's gowns and Hillary Clinton's gown and Michelle</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:09</time>
<p>Obama's gown and Melania Trump's gown.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:12</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:12</time>
<p>So you could really kind of see the Laura Bush's gown was there</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:15</time>
<p>and the different colors that they had chosen for that night.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:19</time>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:19</time>
<p>And kind of the designers they used and what they looked like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:23</time>
<p>So I thought that was very cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:25</time>
<p>They also had their China.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:26</time>
<p>Yeah, that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:27</time>
<p>was interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:27</time>
<p>And I know that's like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:29</time>
<p>Well, I, that's like a thing every, it is because you so many state dinners, every</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:33</time>
<p>first lady has to go in and kind of pick the theme and kind of the design mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:36</time>
<p>And all this stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:37</time>
<p>So</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:37</time>
<p>you can definitely see influence there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:40</time>
<p>You can definitely see, uh, I think president, uh, lady Bird Johnson, his very</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>southern looking, uh, Nancy Reagan with the red, Republican Red like, so you can</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:51</time>
<p>definitely see an influence in the China.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:54</time>
<p>Uh, and you know, since then we've talked to some people, some.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:57</time>
<p>Times China is taken as a memento that you ate at the pres, the president's house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:02</time>
<p>So that's why the ladies usually have to come in and replace China.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:05</time>
<p>Oh, I didn't know that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:06</time>
<p>Because when they come in, there's usually not much China left.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:09</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:09</time>
<p>Cuz people have taken China or it's been gifted or something as a souvenir.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:12</time>
<p>Something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>Oh, interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:14</time>
<p>So that's got another reason why first ladies have to come</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:16</time>
<p>in and, and replace China.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:18</time>
<p>But I, there's a whole Americana section.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:24</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:25</time>
<p>I was surprised that you didn't.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:26</time>
<p>Cover more of that, because that's one of the things that you even</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:29</time>
<p>talked about before you went in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:31</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:32</time>
<p>Right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:32</time>
<p>And, and one of the things that they, they brought up, um, so some,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>some interesting facts about that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:37</time>
<p>I looked up about the, the vast Smithsonian kind of system.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:42</time>
<p>So across, uh, for, I think for the American History Museum and specifically</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:47</time>
<p>it says that, um, that it's responsible for the acquisition care and preservation</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:51</time>
<p>of more than 1.8 million objects.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:55</time>
<p>And three shelf miles of archival collections, like three miles of shelves.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:01</time>
<p>Like picture that Indiana Jones movie, but not a warehouse.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:04</time>
<p>Just rows and rows and rows of, of, you know, artifacts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:09</time>
<p>Of, of artifacts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:10</time>
<p>So the things that, that they, all the websites call out?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:13</time>
<p>Well, they've, they've got.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:14</time>
<p>Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:16</time>
<p>Yes, that's a classic one.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:17</time>
<p>Um, I think you even mentioned the Archie Bunker's chair.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:20</time>
<p>Archie Bunker's chair is there all in the family.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:22</time>
<p>They've got Muhammad Ali's gloves.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:24</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:24</time>
<p>Um, they've got all, all sorts of stuff now across all of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:28</time>
<p>the Smithsonian collections.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:29</time>
<p>Like all 21 different, you know, museums that they have there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:34</time>
<p>The total number of objects of work and art, uh, and specimens at the Smithsonian</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:39</time>
<p>is estimated nearly 157 million.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:42</time>
<p>Oh my gosh.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:43</time>
<p>Now, uh, About 148 million of that is force is scientific specimens.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:48</time>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:49</time>
<p>At the National Museum of Natural History.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:51</time>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:51</time>
<p>So, so the Museum of Natural History, little Rocks and Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:53</time>
<p>To Little Rocks and bugs and, and all the, all the stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
<p>But still, that's, that's a mind blowing amount of, of artifacts that they're.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>Responsible for maintaining It</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:04</time>
<p>is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:04</time>
<p>And I was blown away cuz you walk in and there's like R</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:06</time>
<p>two D two and to C three po.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:08</time>
<p>Yeah, that's so cool that they're right there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:10</time>
<p>So you get to kind of see again, their size and what they look like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:15</time>
<p>Um, and I thought it was neat to see, uh, the map pole from mash.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:21</time>
<p>That's right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:22</time>
<p>You know where all the distances are from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:25</time>
<p>all the cities.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:25</time>
<p>Is that, is that, was that near the helicopter?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:27</time>
<p>No.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
<p>That you saw?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
<p>No, no.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:29</time>
<p>That was all in the Americana section.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:31</time>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:31</time>
<p>So all the Americana section had everything from the film</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:34</time>
<p>and movies and things like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:36</time>
<p>You have Rocky Balbo as the Italian stall.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:38</time>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>Jack was there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
<p>Um, Mr.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
<p>Rogers's sweater.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
<p>Sweater was there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:43</time>
<p>You actually have Ali Wong.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:45</time>
<p>Her standup dress was there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:48</time>
<p>Really?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:48</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:49</time>
<p>Oh, that's so funny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
<p>You love that stand.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
<p>I did.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:51</time>
<p>So I was like, oh my gosh.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:52</time>
<p>Ellie Wong's dress.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:53</time>
<p>Um, So they have all this kind of little pieces of Americana in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:58</time>
<p>Uh, stuff from Prince Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:59</time>
<p>Michael Jackson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:00</time>
<p>You know, it was very neat to see all of these things that you kind of remember</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:04</time>
<p>from, uh, TV and movies in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
<p>Uh, and I, I really appreciated seeing, um, Maya Angelou, Maya Angel.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:13</time>
<p>They have Maya Angelou typewriter there, which I thought was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:17</time>
<p>amazing cuz I like her books.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:19</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:19</time>
<p>And I like her poem.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:20</time>
<p>So that was neat to see that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>And.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:23</time>
<p>There's another artifact there, the ship Philadelphia, and we'll talk more about</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:28</time>
<p>that in a separate podcast, but that blew me away cuz that artifact is one of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:32</time>
<p>oldest ships, uh, that we have in America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>It is made before the USS Constitution.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:39</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>So it, it's neat to see in that it's a pretty.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
<p>Solid artifact.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:44</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:44</time>
<p>And it's in one big room.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:46</time>
<p>So that was a really neat thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:47</time>
<p>That's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:47</time>
<p>pretty wild.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
<p>So where was that?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:49</time>
<p>The hel the Vietnam helicopter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
<p>So that's on a different floor and they go into the war.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:55</time>
<p>So it's like America at war.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:56</time>
<p>So it tells a bunch of different stories.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:58</time>
<p>It's gonna tell Civil War, it's gonna tell, and, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:01</time>
<p>it's gonna roll into Vietnam.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>And that was part of the Vietnam story.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:05</time>
<p>So they have a, a entire.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:07</time>
<p>Huey Army, Huey Helicopter from Vietnam.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:10</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:10</time>
<p>Which was amazing to see.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:11</time>
<p>But they have the war posters and they have, I think they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:16</time>
<p>have Thomas Jefferson's desk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:17</time>
<p>They have George Washington's trunk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:19</time>
<p>They have, they're trying to bring different things from,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:21</time>
<p>and, and, and even for kind of history nerds like us, you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:24</time>
<p>know, all the, all the stuff we do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
<p>Like, I feel like if, once I finally get there, cause I've never been.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:29</time>
<p>Um, I, I would have to not bring my camera cuz I would</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:33</time>
<p>just wanna walk around and just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
<p>take it all in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:35</time>
<p>That's how I felt because it's, it's so many amazing things.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:39</time>
<p>Like you and for the Civil War, you have Sherman's horse,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:42</time>
<p>like his entire horse is there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:44</time>
<p>Yeah, it's stuffed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:45</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:45</time>
<p>And then you have the chairs from the surrender of the Civil</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:49</time>
<p>War, from the McClean house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
<p>That's right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
<p>Like all, so they're housing these pretty.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:54</time>
<p>Big artifacts in the glass and then telling the story.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:57</time>
<p>I mean, a horse, so.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:59</time>
<p>You're walking through.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:01</time>
<p>They don't have, there's things I appreciate and things I don't,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:05</time>
<p>they have to tell quick stories.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
<p>It's quick stories about Revolutionary War, quick stories about the Civil</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>War, because they have so much story to tell and that's what I thought was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>interesting about American History Museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:15</time>
<p>I'm like, what story are they telling here?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:17</time>
<p>Because there's so much story to tell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:20</time>
<p>So they bring out the big artifacts and kind of tell that story, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:25</time>
<p>it's quick, it's a quick story.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:27</time>
<p>You could go to a World War II Museum and see a lot more.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:29</time>
<p>You could go to a Civil War museum and see a lot more.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:32</time>
<p>They're bringing out the big things that they have to tell that story quickly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:37</time>
<p>Um, they even have on the bottom floor a, a low rider.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
<p>So they're showing you Yeah, it's all kind of airbrushed too.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
<p>Like, you know, and they're kind of showing you even more Americana</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:49</time>
<p>like it's, and so I find the American History Museum interesting</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:53</time>
<p>cuz like what part of Americana of America's past are we telling here?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:59</time>
<p>Are we preserving here?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:00</time>
<p>What story?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
<p>And there's so many stories to tell us.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:03</time>
<p>You can tell how they.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:06</time>
<p>Pick and choose their exhibits.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:07</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:08</time>
<p>And what, and I'm sure they rotate stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:10</time>
<p>I'm sure they do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:10</time>
<p>Cause they probably have, they have to, I mean, millions of things.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:14</time>
<p>Uh, but I I, it's neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:15</time>
<p>It's neat to get in there and really look at things and, uh, no, that,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:19</time>
<p>that makes me smile that they got a, a, you know, an airbrush Lowrider re</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:22</time>
<p>reminds me of home in Southern California.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
<p>It does.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
<p>It totally does.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:27</time>
<p>It was, and they have like the clothing of that time and they tell stories about.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:32</time>
<p>Companies in America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:34</time>
<p>I think they had like singer sewing machines and things like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
<p>And they tell the story of transportation, I think at Low</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:40</time>
<p>Rider was part of that exhibit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
<p>Gotcha.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:43</time>
<p>And so they had like they were talking about trains and bicycles and things</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:45</time>
<p>in motorcycles and so it's just a very interesting how the American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:50</time>
<p>History Museum picks and chooses what.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:53</time>
<p>Stories they're telling and when B, based on what artifacts they have.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:57</time>
<p>But it was definitely neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:58</time>
<p>You have to see it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:59</time>
<p>It's free.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:00</time>
<p>And I think it was very good for kids.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
<p>Yeah, they have very, they have a hands-on area for kids and so it's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:06</time>
<p>a great place to bring your family.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:09</time>
<p>Uh, and I think.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:10</time>
<p>All of the museums in DC are free.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:12</time>
<p>So it's just one that has a lot of cool stuff that I think</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
<p>the whole family can enjoy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:18</time>
<p>Well, I, I think we may need to, to make another concerted effort for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
<p>us to, to bring our family up there, uh, before the Navy pulls me away to,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:26</time>
<p>to somewhere else, whenever that is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:28</time>
<p>Um, because there's so many museums up there, whether it's the spy museum</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:32</time>
<p>or it's the air and space, or it's the American history or whatever it is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:35</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:35</time>
<p>Um, you know, I, I.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:38</time>
<p>I would be doing myself, even myself, a non-story nerd, um, a disservice</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:42</time>
<p>if I didn't get to a couple of the museums, you know, one or two more</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
<p>times before, before we leave.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:47</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:47</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:51</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:55</time>
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<time>00:17:57</time>
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<time>00:17:59</time>
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<time>00:18:02</time>
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<time>00:18:04</time>
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<time>00:18:08</time>
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