Some Guys Have All the Fun. Smithsonian Secretary Gets Down to Business

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By Beth Py-Lieberman

smithsonian.com
March 3, 2010

Sometimes even the head of a vast museum and research complex just needs to get down on the floor to make a point. Secretary G. Wayne Clough is making the rounds here at the Smithsonian telling of his recent adventures in Antarctica (above, showing a group of children at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center how to move like a penguin.)

We just had to share.

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