{"id":9835,"date":"2026-09-20T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:15:34","slug":"retiring-smithsonian-head-lonnie-g-bunch-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/retiring-smithsonian-head-lonnie-g-bunch-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Smithsonian head Lonnie G. Bunch III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/retiring-smithsonian-head-lonnie-g-bunch-iii\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/retiring-smithsonian-head-lonnie-g-bunch-iii\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who picks the next Secretary of the Smithsonian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Smithsonian Board of Regents appoints the secretary of the Smithsonian. [1]\u00a0 <br>About the Board of Regents <br><br>\u2022 Role: The 17-member board governs the institution and selects its chief executive officer, the secretary. <br>\u2022 Members: The board includes the Vice President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States (who serves as chancellor), three U.S. Senators, three U.S. Representatives, and nine citizen members. <br>\u2022 Independence: The Smithsonian operates independently from the executive branch of the federal government. [1, 2, 3]\u00a0 <br><br>[1]\u00a0https:\/\/www.si.edu\/about\/organization<br>[2]\u00a0https:\/\/www.si.edu\/newsdesk\/factsheets\/smithsonian-board-regents<br>[3]\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/13\/arts\/design\/smithsonian-lonnie-bunch-next-secretary-selection.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/retiring-smithsonian-head-lonnie-g-bunch-iii\/ Who picks the next Secretary of the Smithsonian? According to AI: The Smithsonian Board of Regents appoints the secretary of the Smithsonian. [1]\u00a0 About the Board of Regents \u2022 Role: The 17-member board governs the institution and selects its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/retiring-smithsonian-head-lonnie-g-bunch-iii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}