Trump isn’t the first to interfere with the Smithsonian. Nixon did, too.
- Posted on October 22, 2025
- By Washington Post
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Trump isn’t the first to interfere with the Smithsonian. Nixon did, too.

First the White House ordered up a costly political exhibition. Then reelection officials told the Smithsonian to wall off a “controversial” voting rights show, a curator later recalled.