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What Lonnie Bunch Told Me

Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was already slipping into the past tense when we walked together through the National Museum of American History in February. Occasionally, as we stood before an exhibit, he’d discuss his role leading the largest museum system in the world as though he had already stepped away. Even then, there wasn’t a question of if he would retire soon, but how soon. He…