It's Thursday, August 21st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today?

The show that is offering you, our listeners and viewers, another episode of our continuing series, People Booming Republicans.

In this case, it's Defense Secretary Pete Higseff and Vice President J.D. Vance,

enjoying a warm welcome from people at Washington, D.C.'s

Union Station.

That's one of the great things about our nation's capital.

You could be heading to your train to New York or Charlottesville on a Wednesday morning

and have the chance to boo the vice president along the way.

On today's show, the Israeli military says it's calling up 60,000 reservists ahead of its expanded operation in Gaza City.

And the Trump administration takes an axe to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

But let's start with our national museums.

President Donald Trump has a lot of opinions on America's museums and the Smithsonian Institute.

We know this because he keeps telling us. Case in point,

on Tuesday, Trump posted on true social quote, The Smithsonian is out of control, where everything

discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden

have been. Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.

Personally, I've always wanted a museum to tell me about the future, like a history book for things

that haven't happened yet. But as you might know, this isn't empty rhetoric. The White House has

announced that it is leading a, quote, comprehensive internal review of selected

Smithsonian museums and exhibitions to ensure that the museums, quote, celebrate American exceptionalism,

remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.

One of the people tasked with leading this effort is White House Special

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