Termites in the nation’s foundations

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I visited the National Museum of American History for the first time 25 years ago and was appalled. Its displays were shallow and tendentious, revealing a clear, carping anti-American bias.

Particularly memorable was an exhibit dedicated to George Washington, which scrimped on discussion of his indispensable leadership in the Revolutionary War and as president but went into detail about how many trees this environmentally unsound fellow chopped down on his Virginia farm.

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