skorton: about $450 million. each of the presidential libraries, as well as the flagship national archives have private foundations that supplement that. susan: your government structure is interesting. there is a board of regents. there is a chief justice, vice president, and leaders of congress serve on it. you are stealing my thunder. it is an interesting governing system. 9 are private citizens. there are eight public service. 6 sitting members of congress. not necessarily leaders, but three from the house and three from the senate. the chancellor of the smithsonian is the chief justice. i report to the board. i am not a political appointee or a federal employee. these missoni and is something called -- the smithsonian is something called a trust instrumentality. 1/3 are federal employees, one third are not. we have 6000 volunteers on-site. you can see them when you come to the library and archives. we have another 6000 or so digital volunteers from the far. it is an interesting governing process, and it work

skorton: i have great confidence and faith in the american people. i think they deserve to know the whole story. we also strive to do that in letting history speak for itself. virtually any area in the smithsonian tells stories that are uplifting and stories that are not our proudest moment, and whether that is in the is he loved the native american, the african-american, my point of view is that the american people have the right. my confidence is that they will want to know the whole story. by the way, i think that is true of our elected leaders as well. they are people who want to know what is going on and want us to hang onto it. whether it is the library of congress, the smithsonian, they can come to us with information that they can count on face value. susan: since you have to work on future planning, let's closed by having you tell your audience what are institutions will look like 10 years from now. dr. skorton: the smithsonian will be a combination of a collection to objects, works of art, authentic material, and newer technologies. i think

skorton: the smithsonian will be a combination of petition to objects, works of art, authentic material, and newer technologies. i think we will do a better job of telling the story of different people in america whose stories have not been told enough. people coming in the days to come will feel more engaged in what they see. susan: he will be finishing your first term. ms. hayden: the institution will be at your fingertips. it will be a place where you can have the experience of looking , ashe original documents well as having all types of experiences with whatever items we have. you can have access to the library of congress wherever you are. >> massive amounts of digitization will allow us to do a better job of connecting the 3 institutions in terms of user experience. be not just one of us, but a suite of information. we will be much more electronic and collaborative. susan: beyond your institutions? all of us will be interconnected. this has been a quick 50 minutes. thank you very much. i would like to invite you to the future again. thank you for the time you have given us today.

skorton? >> i have great confidence and faith in the american people, i really do, and i think they want and deserve to know the whole story. and so we also strive to do what my colleagues strive to do, and that is to let history speak for itself. many areas, virtually any area in the smithsonian tells stories that are uplifting and stories not our proudest moment, african-american museum, american indian and others. my point of view is that the american people have a right and that i have confidence in that they want to know the whole story. by the way, in case it comes up in your thinking, i think that's true of our elected leaders as well. i think they are people who want to know what's going on, and want to have us hang onto it, so whether it's the library of congress, the are kiflz of they archives, they can access it the way the public can, that's information they can count on at face value. >> since you all have to work on future planning, let's close by having you tell our audience wha