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The E Pluribus Unum Show

Jennifer London | CMLS Washington D.C.

We are E Pluribus Unum – out of many one. Our show is about unity. We believe there are many people in America who care about our country regardless of their background or political affiliations. We are here to talk about how we may come together for the betterment of our country and our own well-being. We believe in the motto “Seek first to understand before you judge.” If we understand each other better, we will be better able to help each other, and our country will survive and thrive.

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October 8 · 26 min
John Gerber - Friends of the Washington Statue
John is President and Board Chair of Friends of the Washington Statue, the Virginia-based nonprofit behind the first full restoration of the George Washington statue in London's Trafalgar Square. An architect and developer from McLean, Virginia, John launched the effort after spotting the familiar figure during a visit to London. He then rallied partners, including Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and British architect Norman Foster, to restore the bronze, which Virginia gave to the United Kingdom in 1921, and to give it a new pedestal. The statue was rededicated in June 2025, a symbol of the enduring "special relationship" between the two nations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
October 8 · 29 min
Ed Ryan - American Battle Monuments Commission
Ed Ryan is the former Executive Director of Operations at the American Battle Monuments Commission, the federal agency established by Congress in 1923 to honor the service and sacrifice of America's armed forces overseas. During his career with the agency, which also included serving as Director of Cemetery Operations, he helped oversee the care of 26 permanent American military cemeteries and 31 memorials, monuments, and markers across 17 countries. His work centered on ensuring the stories of the fallen are carried forward to future generations, upholding General Pershing's promise that "time will not dim the glory of their deeds." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
October 8 · 21 min
Tom Begley - Plimoth Patuxet Museums
Tom Begley is Executive Director of Plimoth Patuxet Museums, one of the nation's foremost living history museums, where visitors can step into the stories of both the Wampanoag people and the English colonists of the 1600s. Founded in 1947, the museum has welcomed generations of families and millions of schoolchildren through its immersive, research-driven experiences. A longtime Plymouth resident, Tom has spent his career at the museum, and he edited the first facsimile edition since 1906 of Governor William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation. He also helped secure National Register of Historic Places status for the Mayflower II. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 24 · 24 min
Dr. David Bobb — Bill of Rights Institute
David is the President and CEO of the Bill of Rights Institute, one of the nation's leading civic-education organizations, reaching millions of students and teachers annually. A recognized scholar of American political thought, he previously served as founding director of the Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Divided Over the Declaration: How an Enduring Debate Sustains the Vision of America and has led several America 250 initiatives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 24 · 24 min
Larry O'Connor — O'Connor & Company
Larry O'Connor is a nationally recognized radio host and journalist who hosts O'Connor & Company right here on WMAL and has recently expanded the show nationally on the Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel. He also serves as an editor at Townhall Media and hosts the daily video podcast LARRY. A trusted voice in political media, he's a frequent television commentator on outlets including Fox News, Newsmax, and MSNBC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 10 · 26 min
Janine Turner — Constituting America
Janine Turner is an actress, author, speaker, and founder of Constituting America, a nonprofit dedicated to educating Americans about the U.S. Constitution and inspiring civic engagement among the nation's youth. She is widely known for her Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated role as Maggie O'Connell in Northern Exposure, along with roles in Cliffhanger and Steel Magnolias. Inspired by her appointment to President Bush's Council for Service and Civic Participation, Janine launched Constituting America, which she co-chairs with Cathy Gillespie. She now uses her Hollywood experience to bring the Constitution to life for students through film, music, and storytelling. A native Texan and a great advocate for educating future generations, Janine continues to speak nationwide on the Constitution, civic duty, and preserving America's founding principles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 10 · 25 min
Jennifer Kaye — Patriotic Philanthropy
Jennifer Kaye is a nationally recognized nonprofit executive and philanthropic strategist with over 30 years of experience helping national nonprofits, foundations, and military organizations secure transformational gifts and build influential partnerships. She excels at cultivating relationships with philanthropists, corporate leaders, and military and government officials, with deep expertise in capital campaigns, major gifts, and executive strategy. Her background spans organizational development, public affairs, and diplomatic engagement across the nonprofit, corporate, government, and military sectors. As the mother of a West Point graduate and a Naval Academy Midshipman, she brings a personal commitment to her work with veteran and military-focused organizations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 3 · 24 min
Rabbi Andrew Shaw -- 250 Days for 250 Years
Rabbi Andrew Shaw is a UK-based rabbi and CEO of Mizrachi UK, and Founder & CEO of 250 Days for 250 Years alongside co-founder Daniel Shakhani. The project is a national initiative celebrating America's Semiquincentennial — a 250-day journey through American history, offering one day of content for every year since 1776 through daily videos, essays, state spotlights, a nationwide "Treasure Hunt," and a three-volume book series. Andrew previously founded Tribe, the United Synagogue's youth division, and created the 60 and 70 Days Holocaust memorial projects, reaching hundreds of thousands worldwide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 3 · 25 min
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery -- Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he works to advance U.S. security and counter cyber threats from adversaries like Russia. He also directs CSC 2.0, continuing the work of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which he previously led as Executive Director. Mark completed 32 years as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral in 2017. A frequent traveler to Ukraine, he draws on firsthand visits to inform his analysis of Russian cyberattacks and battlefield innovation. He is also co-author of Axis of Aggressors: Countering the Cooperation of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 3 · 57 min
Mike Stevens -- CEO, Navy League / Author, No Excuses
Mike Stevens serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Navy League of the United States, a role he took on in January 2019 after a 33-year career in the U.S. Navy that culminated in his service as the 13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy from 2012 to 2016, the senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations. His naval career began in 1983 at the Aviation Structural Mechanic Apprentice School in Millington, Tennessee, and spanned a wide range of technical and leadership roles, including Helicopter Crew Chief, Navy Recruiter, Officer Candidate School Instructor, and Command Master Chief assignments at Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Atlantic, U.S. 2nd Fleet, and U.S. Fleet Forces Command. After retiring from active duty in September 2016, he served as Chief Operations Officer and later CEO of Viqtory, a military-focused marketing company supporting veterans' employment, before joining the Navy League. He has also contributed to the National Academy of Sciences as Vice Chair of the Naval Studies Board, served on the board of the Association of the United States Navy, and acted as a guest lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. Stevens holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Excelsior University and has completed programs including Harvard's Kennedy School "Leadership in Crisis" course and a Six Sigma Black Belt certification, and he is a recipient of the Peter Tomich Award for exceptional military excellence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 3 · 24 min
Darley Newman -- Revolutionary Road Trip
Darley Newman is an award-winning host, producer, and travel expert Forbes has credited with building a "PBS media empire." As the creator and host of Travels with Darley, Equitrekking, and Look Up with Darley, she's taken audiences everywhere from horseback across Botswana to the world's highest commercial bungee jump in Macao, all in service of a good story. Her new book, Revolutionary Road Trip: Hidden Stories from America's Founding Journey, takes readers on a journey through Revolutionary War sites across the original thirteen colonies — from famous battlefields to the obscure taverns and forgotten heroes history books tend to skip. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 24 min
David Randall -- National Association of Scholars
David Randall is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars (NAS), where he has written extensively on higher education policy and academic integrity. He earned a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University, an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University, a master's degree in library science from the Palmer School at Long Island University, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. Before joining NAS, he was the sole librarian at the John McEnroe Library at New York Studio School. At NAS, he has co-authored The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences, and the Road to Reform (2018), and has written reports on civics education, social justice education, college common readings, and the College Board's Advanced Placement European History examination, including Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics (2017) and Beach Books, a multi-year study of college common readings. His academic scholarship includes The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siècle's Conversation (2018) and The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought (2019). He has also written on the irreproducibility crisis in science for The Wall Street Journal and The Hill, and was a member of the Arizona Department of Education's first Steering Committee for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, the nation's first education savings account program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 24 min
Matthew Gibson -- Virginia Humanities
Matthew Gibson is the Executive Director of Virginia Humanities, a role he was appointed to in 2017, where he has led the organization's branding, visioning, and strategic planning efforts. He got his start in the digital and public humanities while pursuing his MA and PhD in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia, and in 1998 became assistant, and later associate, director of the University's Electronic Text Center. In 2005, he joined Virginia Humanities (then known as the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) to create and build Encyclopedia Virginia, and between 2008 and 2013 helped build a $2.5 million endowment to secure the editor's position and the project's future. As director of digital initiatives beginning in 2008, he served as principal investigator and director for three NEH grants and helped secure an organization-wide award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a two-year project engaging local communities on racism and bias in Virginia's historical narratives. In 2021, he led a fundraising and planning effort to relocate Virginia Humanities' offices and build the state's first public humanities center. He is an ex-officio member of the Virginia Association of Museums board, serves on Virginia's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission and Virginia's African American Cultural Resources Task Force, and is a member of the Federation of State Humanities Councils' Board of Directors, where he chairs the legislative committee. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 22 min
Captain Kevin Miller, USN (Ret.) -- Author: "The Silver Waterfall"
Captain Kevin Miller, USN (Ret.), is a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and a former tactical naval aviator who operationally flew the F/A-18C Hornet and A-7E Corsair II. He is the author of the Raven One trilogy of contemporary carrier aviation fiction, and in June 2020 he published his long-awaited historical novel, The Silver Waterfall, which went on to win five writing awards, including the 2023 CIBA Hemingway Award for excellence in 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The book tells the story of the men who fought the Battle of Midway over three momentous days in June 1942, capturing their uncertainty, determination, fear, and courage under crushing pressure. Drawing on his years as a naval aviator flying combat aircraft from carriers, in command, and on command staffs, along with his association with the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, which gave him access to rare documents and knowledgeable sources, Miller brought an authentic sense of cockpit and command reality to the novel's characters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 23 min
Roswell Encina -- United States Capitol Historical Society (part 2)
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July 30 · 24 min
Roswell Encina -- United States Capitol Historical Society (part 1)
Roswell Encina is the President and CEO of the United States Capitol Historical Society and a longtime leader in the library and cultural heritage community, bringing more than 18 years of experience in libraries, including nine years on the executive leadership team of the Library of Congress as Chief Communications Officer. Born in the Philippines, he grew up dreaming of becoming a broadcast journalist and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Salisbury State University after first studying marketing management in Manila. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in media and communications, beginning with over a decade in broadcast journalism as an Emmy-nominated, Associated Press award-winning reporter across markets including Salisbury, Huntsville, Birmingham, Memphis, and Baltimore. He then served as Director of Communications at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library starting in 2007, working closely with Carla Hayden. When Hayden became Librarian of Congress, Encina was appointed the Library of Congress's Chief Communications Officer in November 2016, where he oversaw a portfolio of more than 130 staff across Communications, Multimedia, Visitor Engagement, and Learning and Outreach, managing an annual budget of roughly 100 million dollars, and helped lead high-visibility programs such as the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and the National Book Festival. He is widely recognized in his field for his skill in public-facing leadership and stewarding institutional partnerships. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 23 min
Taylor Kiland -- Author
Taylor Baldwin Kiland is a writer who specializes in military nonfiction, having written, co-authored, ghost-written, or edited eighteen books, including three about the nation's Vietnam POWs: Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behind, Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams, and Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later. A former naval officer, she is the third generation in her family to serve in the Navy and was raised in Coronado, California, and Virginia, where she grew up alongside many Vietnam POW and MIA families. Before turning to writing, she spent twenty years in the private sector as a marketing communications professional. She holds a master's degree in Marketing Communications from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She has also worked as an account director for the global communications firm Burson-Marsteller and volunteered for numerous national political campaigns, including Senator John McCain's in 2000. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 24 min
Anita McBride -- Legacies of America's First Ladies Initiative (American University)
Anita B. McBride is an American academic and former government official who served in the White House under three presidential administrations, most notably as Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States under Laura Bush from 2005 to 2009. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, she attended the University of Connecticut, earning a B.A. in international studies after starting out in pre-med. Earlier in her career, McBride was director of White House Personnel under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and also served as director of the speaker's bureau at the United States Information Agency; her White House and State Department service in total spans two decades and three administrations. She is currently an executive-in-residence at American University's School of Public Affairs, where she directs the First Ladies Initiative, focusing on the historical roles of America's first ladies. She is a founding member of the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) and has co-authored several books, including Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women and the textbook U.S. First Ladies: Making History and Leaving Legacies. She remains a frequent commentator on the White House and the influence of first ladies, drawing on her senior roles under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 30 · 23 min
Jim Roberts -- American Veterans Center
Virginia-based nonprofit he established in 1995 to honor the sacrifice and guard the legacy of America's veterans, from the "Greatest Generation" to today's service members. Born on August 9, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois, Roberts is the son of William H.T Roberts. Before founding the AVC, in 1985 he founded Radio America, a news/talk network that grew to more than 700 affiliates nationwide and over 7 million listeners. Under his leadership, the AVC organizes the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C., a national conference for future military leaders, and an oral history program that has drawn more than 500 million views on social media, and he currently serves as the organization's executive chairman. He has written two books, The Conservative Decade and Hardball on the Hill: Baseball Stories from the Nation's Capital, edited two others, and authored several monographs, with articles appearing in more than 20 publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June 1 · 45 min
Rosie Rios -- America 250 Commission
Rosie Rios is the Chair of America 250, the United States Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, and the CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm. She served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2016, overseeing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the U.S. Mint, including Fort Knox, with responsibility for nearly 4,000 employees and a $5 billion budget. She initiated and led the historic efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. Federal Reserve notes for the first time in over a century, and upon her resignation received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Her signature appears on a world-record $1.8 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation worldwide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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