As Trump administration runs roughshod over Smithsonian, even Mark Twain would get canceled

By: Mark McCormick

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 16, 2026

Words: 756

Last Updated: 2 days, 8 hours ago

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Mark Twain once said of the praise he’d received: “I do love compliments, yet I’m often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment, I so often feel that they somehow, have not gone far enough.”

Twain just may be correct. Earnest Hemingway once said of Twain that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’” Twain created the nation’s plainspoken, …

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