Secretary Joseph Henry wrote in the Smithsonians charter that 2 The government of the United States is merely a trustee to carry out the design of the testator. Along the way, government creep and legal confusion initiated unintended appropriations, blurring the lines between the private and the public, something the Smithsonians first Secretary warned about back in 1848. (Go to Twitter and search for the Smithsonian Board of Regents.) They never had to hold open, transparent public meetings where the beneficiaries, the taxpayer, or the press could witness how the never intended hundreds of millions of appropriated taxpayer funds would be distributed or even comment because the Smithsonian Institution was simply a private trust, not subject to the federal laws like the Open Meetings Act or even the Freedom of Information Act.
The Board of Regents, made up of unpaid appointees, including the vice-president, the chief justice as the Smithsonian chancellor, three members of the House and three members of the Senate, and members of the public, is one of the most secretive governing boards in Washington D.C.
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