>> My dad told me one time if you do what you love then you'll never work a day in your life
and I've raised my own kids with that philosophy.
And I came here because I was in the news business.
I worked for NBC News for 15 years and I knew I didn't want to travel anymore.
I knew there were a lot of things about the job that had become sort of common and I don't want
to say boring but they weren't the challenge they had been years earlier
so I kind of targeted this job.
At the time, the Freedom Forum was a wonderful, benevolent, grant-making foundation
in Arlington, Virginia and they were going to start a little thing called the Newseum
that grew from being basically a research library on the 22nd floor
to being a fairly large, and I call it the starter museum for where we are
and I worked through that period.
I learned an awful lot about the museum industry which I had never come close to.
I'd never seen a museum designer before in my life.
So if you talk about leaving one job where you're very, very comfortable
and you've basically achieved anything that you might have wanted to achieve coming
to something totally different was so refreshing but it still had the roots of what I had done
for so many years which was news coverage.