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Mute point: Smithsonian director stumped by simple questions at Congress

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Anthea Hartig can’t figure out how to push a microphone button during a congressional hearing, how to define a woman, or whether history should be used for activism. But the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History insists that her love for the United States is “unconditional.”

Except that Hartig equivocates on that one, too. Several times she pledged her love for America during two hearings by congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, at which I was also a witness.

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