After blasting the National Museum of American History for selling souvenirs that were not made in America, Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) returned Wednesday to inspect the new products in one of the museum?s stores.
?Any museum owned by the American people, discussing American history, should have American products. I made that my concern,? Sanders said. ?I?m proud to see that in a short period of time, there have been changes.?
Right before Christmas, Sanders was shopping for his grandchildren and picked up the small busts of U.S. presidents, only to discover they were made in China. ?I was disturbed,? he recalled Wednesday. Sanders?s concern led to meetings with administrative and business officials of the Smithsonian, which oversees the American History museum and the various shops? product lines. The Smithsonian promised to search for more U.S.-made merchandise and reconfigure one of its stores with those products by July 4.
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