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PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE
ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Suite 526
Washington, DC 20506
202/682-5409 Fax:202/682-5668
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DATE: December 15, 1994
FAX NUMBER: 456-6244
TO:
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ORGANIZATION
FROM: Malcolm Richardson
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COMMENTS:
The transcript of the First Lady's remarks to our Committee follow. We would
like to have you look at them for any edits, and if you agree, we would then
send copies to our members and eventually incorporate in our newsletter.
Happy holidays to everyone in the First Lady's office. You all have been
wonderfully helpful to us and have made our work SO much better!
Malch
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Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Washington, D.C. December 2. 1994
I want to tell all the Committee members how pleased I am to see you here. I
have been receiving reports about the exciting, and in many ways ground-
breaking, work that you are already doing by looking at the issues that we all
believe need to be addressed. I'm also very conscious, as the chairman just
referred. to the questions that are in all of our minds about the future of federal
funding for our country's vibrant and vigorous cultural life. Obviously none of us
can predict what will happen on this front, and I know that if we could, we would
be making predictions that we hope would come true. But I believe as Americans
understand what it means to them to have their local monuments and museums,
their theaters, and their libraries, they will understand. as we do. that all of our
artistic and cultural institutions are an integral part of what we call America, and
a part we must work very hard always, not only to preserve and nurture, but to
grow because of the impacts they make on our lives.
Over the past twelve years this Committee, in a bipartisan way, has vigorously
supported the arts and humanities, and I know that together we will work to
continue that vigorous support. Throughout their histories the NEA. the NEH,
the IMS, and the other federal cultural agencies have enjoyed bipartisan, deeply-
rooted support that extends into every community in our country. I know that
because we value our diverse cultural traditions and we take pride in celebrating
America's creative and intellectual genius. that we will be prepared to make
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effectively the arguments that will need to be made as to why the tradition of this
committee, the institutions represented, and more importantly, all of our
institutions throughout the country need to continue to have the support of the
federal government.
As the President said earlier this fall, government only provides a small measure
of support for the humanities and the arts but that small investment reaps
enormous rewards in human institutions and organizations without which we
would all be so much poorer. That federal support is like yeast: it helps grow the
local and state support for the arts, it encourages private philanthropy, it gives
voice to the many people who see the arts and humanities from different points
of view but find common ground in their commitment to supporting the richness
that we have in our country. And, I hope that each of us will take seriously the
challenge that will confront the support for the arts by working even harder to
explain more clearly what that means, what it means in the daily lives of our
people.
And you have already been working hard on your ambitious agenda. John
[Brademas] referred very briefly to the committees that are already meeting. I look
forward as the months go on to hearing the results of your work and to seeing
many of your ideas take shape as projects and new commitments on behalf of the
arts and the humanities. And. as you know, I am particularly interested in how
your work will affect the lives of children. As I said a few months ago when we
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met together at the White House, I truly believe this committee has tremendous
potential to help provide healthful and productive outlets for young Americans
and I believe those outlets can, in many ways, help to change lives.
Many years ago when I was working with my husband on education reform, one
of the strongest feelings I had was that we needed to require that the arts be a
part of all school curricula and that every child have at least one chance, however
fleeting, to be exposed to the rich artistic traditions of our land. We were able to
do that but at the time I remember many conversations with people who would
ask, "Why the arts? why the humanities? That's not practical. That won't make
a difference." And, then I would go through the halls of schools in small, small
towns, and I would see the art work of the students proudly displayed. I would
be introduced to the young boy or young girl who had written the essay that
everyone was proud of. I would meet the child who no one could reach but all of
a sudden that child began to draw and was encouraged by the teacher who stayed
after school to help. And I would turn to the adults who were with me from the
community, and I would say, "That is why every child needs the chance to explore
for him- or herself what the arts can mean in that child's life."
And I am grateful that you are taking this challenge on as well. Thank you for
what you are doing for the arts and humanities, for our country, and our
children.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 23, 1995
The Honorable John Brademas
Chairman
President"s Committee on
the Arts and Humanities
Suite 526
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20506
Dear John:
Thank you for your letter of June 1, 1995, requesting
further guidance on the proposed report by the President's
Committee on furthering America's cultural life.
I believe that the approach you have outlined will result
in an extremely important contribution to advancing the arts
and the humanities in our country. I also think it would be
most useful if the report were to address the following issues:
First, in articulating the fundamental and intrinsic
values of the arts and humanities, the report should describe
"the cultural sector" and its contributions to American life --
educational, economic and social -- as well as indicate how
cultural organizations further understanding among diverse
groups in our society.
Second, because the mission of the President's Committee
is to stimulate more involvement by the private sector and
more private-public partnerships in support of the arts and
the humanities, the bulk of the report should concentrate
on explaining how these two fields are now supported in the
United States.
What, for example, is the mix of public and private support
and earned income that now sustains them?
How do changes. in funding patterns affect the stability of
American cultural institutions and their capacity both to reach
the public and to support artists and scholars?
2
Are there inequities in the funding, geographic distri-
bution, and accessibility to the public of cultural institutions
in the United States?
What do we know about trends in private funding and earned
income that constitute most of the financial support for cultural
life in our country?
What is the role of the federal contribution to the arts
and the humanities?
In light of the current debate over whether the private
sector should do more to support the nation's cultural life,
this section could be particularly significant.
Third, and perhaps most important, I hope the report will
contain strong recommendations from the President's Committee
for strengthening support for the arts and the humanities in the
United States, in order, as I said last fall, to "build strong
and vibrant institutions across the country."
I thank you and the other members of the Committee for your
participation in this important endeavor, and I look forward to
hearing about the progress of your work and to receiving the
report by March 1996.
Sincerely,
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The Honorable William J. Clinton
President
United States of America
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
When you and the First Lady so graciously launched the President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities on September 21, 1994 at
the White House, you asked us to deliver to you a "report on the
progress we're making in furthering America's cultural life". You
added, "For 200 years the arts and humanities have helped to bridge
American differences, helped Americans to learn to appreciate
differences, one from another, and to build strong and vibrant
institutions across the country. You must help us to explore ways
to do this better".
I write today to ask for your further guidance on this important
report. Many thoughtful people we have consulted agree that a
report on the condition of the nation's cultural life and the role
of arts and humanities organizations and museums in our civic life
is most timely. For us responsibly and effectively, however, to
produce a significant report on so complex a subject, we would like
to work for another eight months and would plan to deliver the
report to you in January or February 1996.
We propose to discuss these issues by asserting at the outset the
fundamental and intrinsic values of the arts and the humanities.
We would emphasize as well the contributions that a strong cultural
sector makes to our economy, our community life and to encouraging
respect among diverse groups, here and abroad.
In light of the trends in both public and private funding of the
arts and the humanities, we also believe that we should focus on
The Honorable William J. Clinton
June 1, 1995
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how cultural organizations and creators are supported in the United
States today and recommend ways of strengthening the support system
that sustains our cultural life.
If you agree with this approach, we should greatly appreciate any
further guidance you wish to give us as we undertake this important
task.
Again, my colleagues on the President's Committee and I are greatly
honored by the opportunity to serve you and our country in this
way.
Sincerely,
Julin John Brademas
Chairman
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EDWARD M. KENNEDY
MASSACHUSETTS
United States Senate
file
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-2101
May 26, 1995
The Honorable John Brademas
New York University
Suite 400
11 West 42nd Street
New York, New York 10036-1350
Dear John:
It was good speaking with you yesterday regarding the
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. I understand
your concerns and know that your commitment to this program will
help continue its exemplary record of private/public partnership.
Unfortunately, this is a difficult time for federal support for the
arts. The Reauthorization bill, of which I am an original cosponsor,
represents a delicate balance of the input of many members of the
Committee. One of the strong concerns by the Majority side was a
need to dramatically reduce the administrative expenses of the
Endowment. As you know. PCAH is included in that budget.
The bill, as introduced, does not include a limitation on travel
reimbursement for staff, but it does include a ceiling for
contributions by the Endowments. 1 believe that this compromise is
the best we could do under the circumstances. In truth, we hope to
head off a move to eliminate PCAH with this budget restriction.
I will ask my staff to keep you informed of any developments
as this bill moves forward. We expect action by the full Committee
in June.
With my best wishes,
Edward Sincerely, M. Pl Kennedy Wam regular
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COMMENTS:
The remarks from Sept. 21 follow marked
up with an edits; the Newsletter
text follows.
Many thanks.
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PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE
ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
Report of the First Clinton Committee
Fall, 1994
On September 21, President Clinton announced the
appointments of Dr. John Brademas and 31 other pri-
vate sector members to the President's Committee on
the Arts and the Humanities. Hillary Rodham Clinton
will serve as the Committee's Honorary Chairman. The
appointments showed the President and First Lady's
concern for the health of America's cultural life and
demonstrated their commitment to revializing the
President's Committee. Printed below are the
President's and First Lady's remarks at the White House
ceremony in honor of the new President's Committee
members. and the remarks of Chairman John
Brademas, as well as excerpts from the President's
Committee's first meeting.
MRS. CLINTON'S REMARKS AT THE WHITE
HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1994
It is a great pleasure for the President and me to
welcome all of you to the White House. We are very pleased
and proud of this Committee and are grateful to all who
agreed to serve, and particularly grateful to Dr. John
Brademas for taking on the job of being the Chair, the dis-
tinguished Vice-Chairs, and everyone who has been willing
to take time for this commitment.
We believe this is an important day for those of us
who care deeply about American culture. It's important
because this Committee has so much potential not only to
do good in ways that will affect the lives of Americans, but
also to focus particularly on providing hopeful and produc-
tive outlets for our children.
We want to support and nurture our artists and hu-
manists and the traditions that they represent. And we want
also to bring those traditions alive for literally millions and
millions of children who too often grow up without oppor-
tunities for creative expression, without opportunities for
intellectual stimulation. without exposure to the diverse
cultural traditions that contribute to our identity as Ameri-
cans.
Mark Your Calendar
Too often today, instead of children discovering
the joyful rewards of painting, or music, or sculpting, or
PCAH Meeting Schedule
writing, or testing a new idea, they express themselves
December 2, 1994
through acts of frustration, helplessness, hopelessness and
January 25, 1995
even violence.
We see too clearly how the crosion and breakdown
March 31, 1995
of our most cherished institutions have resulted in a fraying
June 27, 1995
of the whole social fabric. We see it most tragically in chil-
October 18, 1995
dren killing children.
We know that the arts have the potential for oblit-
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crating the limits that are 100 often imposed on our lives.
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We know that they can take anyone, but particularly a child,
and transport that child beyond the bounds that circumstance
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has prescribed. We hope that among contributions this Com-
ties, which is so important to our democracy, and with es-
mittee makes, it will be thinking of and offering ideas about
tablishing new partnerships between the federal agencies
how we can provide children with safe havens to develop
and the private sector.
and explore their own creative and intellectual potentials.
As a sign of our commitment to the arts and the
The arts and humanities have the potential for be-
humanities today, we have here with us members of the
ing such safe havens. In communities where programs al-
Cabinet and the Administration, including Secretary Riley,
ready exist, they are providing soul-saving and life-enhanc-
Sheldon Hackney, Jane Alexander, Joe Duffey. and a num-
ing opportunities for young people. And I am delighted
ber of other government officials.
that as one of its major endeavors, this Committee will be
An extraordinary group of Americans
considering ways of expanding those opportunities to all of
I appointed, as all of you can sec, an extraordinary
our children.
group of Americans to the Committee - artists, scholars.
Doing what we can here in the White House and
writers, thinkers, leaders in the corporate world and the
throughout this Administration to promote and nurture the
philanthropic community, committed citizens, activists rec-
arts and humanities is one of the greatest pleasures that has
ognized in their communities - people who represent out-
been ours in the last 20 months. The President believes so
standing achievement and a commitment to the cultural life
strongly in the role that the arts and humanities play in in-
of our nation - a commitment to keep it alive and to make it
dividual lives and in our collective life as a nation. As a
more accessible.
child. he found so much joy and challenge in music and in
A report on the state of the culture
the other art forms. And together, we have tried in our own
By this time next year, I want you to deliver to me
lives and with our daughter to provide that kind of expo-
a report on the progress we're making in furthering
sure and opportunity.
America's cultural life. For 200 years the arts and humani-
So, it is with great pleasure and particular joy, in
ties have helped to bridge American differences. helped
front of this group on this day. for me to introduce the Presi-
Americans to learn to appreciate differences, one from an-
dent of the United States.
other. and to build strong and vibrant institutions across
PRESIDENT CLINTON'S REMARKS AT THE
our country. You must help us explore ways to do this bet-
WHITE HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1994
ter.
Thank you very much, the First Lady and my old
America's leadership role
friend John Brademas, and to all of you who have agreed to
The most disturbing thing to me about American
serve. and your friends and supporters who are here.
life today is not the problems we have, although we have
Now. let me thank you all again, all of you who
problems a-plenty, it is the lack of unity among Americans
have agreed to serve on the President's Committee on the
and the lack of optimism we feel in dealing with those prob-
Arts and the Humanities, to underscore the vital partner-
lems.
ship that must exist between your government and the pri-
Just a couple of weeks ago, a distinguished inter-
vate citizens who do the work of the arts and the humani-
national panel of economists said that the United States
tics in our nation. I want to thank the First Lady for agree-
was the most productive country in the world. They said
ing to be the Honorary Chair. although this is a job she
that for the first time in almost a decade, because of the
wanted, unlike some of those I have asked her to take on.
remarkable resurgence of our economy, because of the num-
You couldn't have a more appreciative or informed friend.
ber of jobs we're creating, because we accounted for al-
John Brademas to serve as Chairman
most all the job growth and three-quarters of the economic
I am also very, very pleased that John Brademas
growth in the seven great industrial nations of the world in
has agreed to serve as Chairman. I have known him for
the last year and a half. and because we are taking on a lot
many years since his distinguished career in the United
of our biggest challenges bringing our government deficit
States Congress and through his brilliant presidency at New
down three years in a row for the first time since Mr. Truman
York University. I think he is one of our nation's most
was President the only country of all the advanced econo-
outstanding citizens and will certainly be one of the most
mies to do that. And yet, so many Americans still feel that
eloquent advocates imaginable for the cause you are here
we're kind of adrift and falling apart from one another.
to further.
Maybe even more important, as you look toward
He also happens to have been an original co-spon-
the 21st century isn't it interesting that in the last year
sor of the bill that created the National Endowment for the
and a half the South Africans wanted us to spend $35 mil-
Arts and the Humanities, and he wrote the bill that estab-
lion and send our best people to South Africa to work on
lished the Institute of Museum Services. He also promised
making that election a success? The Irish and the English
to give me free Congressional lobbying advice on the side
have been fighting for eight centuries now. They wanted
in return for his appointment.
the United States to be involved in the process of reconcili-
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humani-
ation that is now taking hold in Northern Ireland. After
ties
decades of brutal struggle, the Israelis and the Arabs work-
I have charged the President's Committee with
ing together to make peace in the Middle East want the
advancing public understanding of the arts and the humani-
Americans to be centrally involved.
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Even in the moment of our greatest tension a few
hope that this Committee could deal with and all the differ-
days ago in Haiti, one of the military leaders said, well, if
ent challenges I hope you could assume. If 1 haven't done
the President is determined to do this, and the world com-
a good job, it's not your fault. it's mine in picking you, but
munity is absolutely determined to go ahead, we want the
I think you're pretty special.
Americans here. Why is that? We have Haitian Ameri-
Making the arts and the humanities accessible
cans, Jewish Americans, Arab Americans, Irish Americans,
Lct me say in closing that I hope that in addition
English Americans. You think of it - this diversity we have
to the schools, you can think about how we can increase
which cuts across racial and religious and philosophical and
access to the arts and humanities all across America for
regional and income lines - it is the source of our great
people who might otherwise be isolated from them - people
strength today in a world that is ever more interdependent.
who are homebound. people who live in very isolated ar-
And people look at us and say, with all their prob-
cas, people who now don't even know how to speak the
lems - yes, their crime rate's too high; and, yes, they're 100
language that would be necessary to ask for something that
violent; yes, too many of their kids drop out of school; and
might change their lives forever. I ask you also to think of
yes, there is too much income inequity, especially for work-
that.
ing people - but they get along pretty well. And people
We've faced a lot of challenges as a country, but
from all different kinds of backgrounds wind up pursuing
I'm actually pretty optimistic about it based on the objec-
their chosen paths in life and living up to their God-given
tive evidence. What remains is whether wc can develop a
potentials. And they're adaptable - they work their way
vision that will sustain us as a people as we move through a
through the changes that time and circumstance are impos-
period of change without a known big enemy into an un-
ing on them. That's what others think about us.
certain future. It requires courage. but courage comes from
The role of the arts and the humanities
having something inside that you can connect with what
We somehow have to begin to think that about
you see outside.
ourselves again. And I cannot help but believe that the arts
You can help us as wc work our way through this
and humanities must play a central role in that task. How
in this remarkable time in our country's history. I hope you
we imagine our own lives and our own future and how WE
enjoy it. I thank you for serving. And I thank you for being
imagine ourselves as a country will have as big an impact
here today. Thank you.
on what it is we ultimately become as anything in the world.
REMARKS OF DR. JOHN BRADEMAS AT THE
But we only find energy for dealing with our prob-
WHITE HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1994
lems and the heart and the hearing to deal with our differ-
Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, at the outset, let me
ences when at least we have a realistic appreciation of where
put you both at case. 1 am a child of the United States
we are, what we're doing and where we're going. And I
House of Representatives and not the Senate, and there-
feel so good about the work we've done to move America
fore, 1 shall be very brief.
forward in the last 20 months, but we'd all have to admit
Mr. President, you do great honor to all of us whom
we've still got a lot of work to do in bringing America to-
you have asked to serve as members of the President's Com-
gether, in giving Our people a realistic feeling about where
mittee on the Arts and the Humanities. and I am grateful to
we are in the world and where we're going. You can do
you for having done me the honor of asking me to chair the
that. You can make a huge difference. The arts and hu-
Committee.
manities have always helped 10 do that work.
You have chosen an extraordinary group of pri-
An agenda for the President's Committee
vate citizens to serve on the Committee even as the public
So I urge you to continue in this work. I urge you
members are outstanding leaders of government, most of
to make your progress report to mc. 1 urge you to remem-
whom are friends and former colleagues of mine.
ber what we are trying to do in our schools in helping to
I am also glad that the able Executive Director of
improve our children's education with the arts and the hu-
the President's Committee is someone who for several years
manities. I urge you to work to expand private philanthropy.
led the Vermont Council on the Arts and was for ten years
We all know that the government in this country provides a
chief of staff to the distinguished senior Senator from Ver-
crucial measure, but only a tiny measure, of the support
mont, Senator Patrick Leahy - Ellen McCulloch-Lovell.
that the arts and the humanities need.
Mr. President, that with all the other issues, for-
I urge you to promote international cultural ex-
eign and domestic, on your mind. you should have taken
change and understanding, not only because we need des-
the time to meet with us today to charge us with the mis-
perately to know more about others throughout the world,
sion of encouraging greater support, private and public of
but because I believe that we'll learn a lot more about our-
the arts and humanities in American life, is a powerful dem-
selves if we just come in contact with people from other
onstration of the commitment you and the First Lady bring
walks of life and other paths of the world.
to our purpose.
I am very hopeful that you will make a remark-
You have asked us, Mr. President. to give you a
able contribution to this country. I went over this list of
report on the state of the culture in our country, to consider
people with great care. I tried to get a very different group
the implications for the arts and the humanitics of the in-
of people. I tricd to imagine all the different things that I
formation infrastructure, to encourage greater access for
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the American people 10 the arts and the humanities and to
former colleague in the House, Undersecretary of State for
look at international cultural exchanges.
Global Affairs, Tim Wirth, to be a member of the Commit-
So, Mr. President, you have given us a tall order. I
tee.
am confident, however, that with this superb group of Ameri-
Mission of the President's Committee
cans and the support of the President of the United States
Now the mission of the President's Committee is
and the First Lady, we will respond constructively and cf-
to advance public understanding of the and the humani-
fectively to your challenge.
ties, and to establish new partnerships between the private
Thank you again, Mr. President, for the honor that
sector and federal agencies to address critical issues facing
you do us.
cultural life in the United States.
EXCERPTS FROM OPENING STATEMENT OF DR.
The arts and the humanities. with their power to
JOHN BRADEMAS, CHAIRMAN, MEETING XXIX,
inform and uplift our lives and to help the country's diverse
NANCY HANKS CENTER, SEPTEMBER 21, 1994
population understand and communicate with one another.
I want to extend a warm welcome to all of you
should be at the center of everyday life, not at the margins.
whom President Clinton has selected to serve on the
The Committee's agenda
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. You
Working with the White House, we have devel-
are an outstanding group of men and women about to cm-
oped an ambitious agenda for the Committee. We can suc-
bark on an exciting day and an important mission.
ceed with this agenda only if all of you are committed and
I am greatly honored that the President has asked
active. I think it important here to note that whatever
me to chair this Committee, and that he has named to it
projects we decide to undertake will need to be privately
such an extraordinary group of people.
funded. So as you go through this exciting day, please think
With your help and active participation, I'm con-
about what you can do to advance Our work.
fident that the President's Committee on the Arts and the
Today we'll be talking about how the Committee
Humanities will fulfill its promise.
can help reverse the downward trends in private funding
Of course, we are all delighted that the First Lady,
for the arts and the humanities.
Hillary Rodham Clinton. has graciously agreed to serve as
This Administration will do everything it can to
Honorary Chair of the Committee.
support cultural life, through the personal advocacy of the
The prestige of our Committee and the backing of
President and First Lady, through events at the White House,
the White House can, I feel sure, influence private philan-
through support from other departments of the government
thropy in our country and encourage greater support for the
and by maintaining adequate requests in the federal bud-
cultural life of the nation.
get.
A vital partnership
I think it is safe to say, however, that with continu-
As President Clinton said in naming all of you to
ing efforts to reduce the deficit, and in light of the contro-
the Committee, "The federal, state and local governments
versies in Congress, our arts and humanities agencies are
together provide only a small percentage of the support es-
not likely to win big increases in their budgets.
sential to our cultural life. These appointments underscore
In my judgement. we should be able to build the
the vital partnership between the government and the pri-
groundwork for increasing those budgets.
vate citizens who do so much to enrich and preserve the
Valuing artists and scholars
arts and the humanities in our country."
All of us know that artists and scholars are not
"At a time when our society faces new and pro-
valued enough. nurtured enough. All of us know that many
found challenges, when we are losing so many of our chil-
cultural institutions, whether large and established or small
dren, and when so many people feel insecure in the face of
and community-based, are in economic crisis and that this
change, the arts and the humanities are fundamental to our
condition affects the access of people to their offerings.
lives as individuals and as a nation."
Indeed, the economic situation of the arts and the humani-
Our Committee can create partnerships with other
ties is in many respects so fragile that the loss of even a
federal departments and agencies, as we are already doing
modest government grant or support from a private donor
with the Department of Commerce, to promote cultural tour-
can mean a crisis. So we must take seriously our mission
ism
to stimulate private sector giving.
Please remember that with so many senior mem-
Putting the arts back in the classroom
bers of the government on our Committee. we also func-
You will hear today about the efforts of the gov-
tion as an interagency task force on the arts and the hu-
ernment to improve educational standards and to put the
manities. Indeed, I'm very pleased that so many of the
arts back into the classroom. The National Endowment for
government members of the Committee are with us today
the Arts and the Department of Education have forged a
and I'm delighted that Secretary of the Interior Babbitt has
partnership to demonstrate how the arts fit into the National
asked Roger Kennedy, Director of the Park Service, to serve;
Education Goals approved in the Goals 2000 legislative
that Secretary of the Treasury Bentsen has asked his Assis-
congress passed this year, and to get a national standards
tant Secretary for Tax Policy, Leslie Samuels, to join us;
voluntary standards . in the arts and the humanities adopted
and that Secretary of State Christopher has designated my
by every state. We endorse this effort as a necessary foun-
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dation for all other efforts to reach children.
Chair, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
President Clinton will also ask our Committee to
We should have a great day together. More im-
pay particular attention to what happens to young people
portant, 1 believe that working together, we can accomplish
when they are not in school; to use the power of the arts
something of significance for the President of the United
and, through the humanities, of ideas, to offer young people
States and for the people of our country, for what we do in
creative alternatives to destructive urges.
the arts and the humanities tells who we are as a people.
You will hear as well about government partner-
Our education and cultural institutions are indispensable to
ships, some of which the President's Committee already
the quality of our lives. the strength of our communities
has initiated.
and the vitality of our democracy.
For example. the Committee was asked by the
SUMMARY OF MEETING XXIX OF THE
Department of Commerce to prepare one of the eight new
PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON THE ARTS AND
policy papers about the National Information Infrastruc-
THE HUMANITIES, SEPTEMBER 21, 1994
ture - better known as the Information Superhighway. Our
Following his remarks Chairman Brademas called
staff worked together with the NEA, NEH and IMS to pro-
upon Harold Williams, the President of the J. Paul Getty
duce a report, "Arts. Humanities and Culture on the NII,"
Trust, to open a discussion of recent trends in American
which was released by Secretary Ron Brown on September
philanthropy. Mr. Williams observed that corporate giving
7. There are many significant projects that can come out of
had declined along with earnings in recent years. Mr. Wil-
that policy review.
liams discerned trends toward smaller grants and more cau-
I personally hope that our Committee will also give
tious grant-making in the wake of arts controversies. He
attention to how we can encourage more international ex-
also cited a 1991 study on the economic condition of art
change among artists and humanists. What we may call
museums conducted by the National Bureau of Economic
"cultural diplomacy" often proceeds economic exchange
Research which found that art museum exhibitions and pro-
and improves the political climate in forcign affairs. I bc-
grams were growing while revenues had peaked. These
lieve that if we imaginatively address cultural diplomacy,
trends pointed to a period of belt-tightening for all cultural
we can help this Administration and our country in other
institutions, Mr. Williams warned, as flat or declining rev-
parts of the world.
enues force many nonprofit groups to rethink their mis-
The Department of Commerce also has encour-
sions and to cut back on programs. These short-term sav-
aged a partnership for cultural tourism, to publicize cul-
ings could seriously weaken the future development of cul-
tural events in the United States in markets abroad.
tural organizations.
Much of what we do, of course, and what we seek
Corporate support
to encourage, can be advanced by an effective media plan.
Mr. Williams' remarks on corporate giving
There are several ways wc can work with the radio, televi-
prompted a discussion on how arts and humanities groups
sion and publications to enhance public awareness of the
could improve their prospects for receiving corporate sup-
arts and the humanities.
port. Harvey Golub, the chairman and CEO of American
Now 1 would like to introduce the Executive Di-
Express, responded that corporate leaders were by and large
rector of our Committee. She has, in my view a superb
very supportive of the arts and culture. Corporations, Golub
background for her important responsibility - nine years as
explained, may give through a variety of means, and a sepa-
Director the Vermont Council on the Arts and then ten years
rate private foundation is only one form. Robert Menschel
as Chief of Staff to the distinguished senior Senator from
thought that too much emphasis had been placed on large
Vermont. Patrick Leahy. I have myself. in the relatively
corporations; instead the focus should be on medium-sized
short time we have been working together, been impressed
and small companies, where much of the growth in corpo-
by her energy, her intelligence, her judgement and her dedi-
rate America is occurring.
cation to the purpose that brings us together today.
James Wolfensohn, Chairman of the John F.
Now all of you bring tremendous experience to
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, observed that many
the Committee, and there is always room for new idcas.
cultural groups fail to make convincing arguments. Sup-
By the end of today, I hope to be able to create working
port for the arts once could be justified in the most general
groups to deal with the items on our agenda as well as a
terms, but artistic and scholarly organizations now must
working group to develop any ideas that emerge from this
have clear missions and the programs they offer 10 funders
meeting.
should be carefully thought out and further those artistic or
I will ask each working group to articulate the
intellectual goals. Mr. Golub described the pressures at
objectives of the project it recommends: identify those
work on corporate giving programs. While the arts and the
government, corporate or non-profit partners with which
humanities have fared relatively well in the past. Golub
we will work to carry out the project; and to indicate how it
noted that corporate donors, like independent foundations,
will be financed.
are under increased pressure to address social problems and
We will move ahead on those projects to which
10 supplement public funding for social services. When
the White House has agreed. When new ideas are devel-
pitted against these needs, the arts and humanities seem
oped. I will review them for approval with our Honorary
less urgent and inevitably suffer especially when social pro-
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 21, 1994
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND THE FIRST LADY
AT THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CEREMONY
The East Room
4:56 P.M. EDT
MRS. CLINTON:
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It is a great pleasure for the President and
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to
welcome all of you to the White House. We are very pleased and proud
of this committee and are grateful to all who agreed to serve, and
are particularly grateful to Dr. Brademas for taking on the job of
being the chair; the distinguished vice-chairs) and everyone who has
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We believe this is an important day for these of us who
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care deeply about American culture. It's important not only because
this committee has so much potential to do good in ways that will
affect the lives of Americans, but also by focusing particularly
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on
providing hopeful and productive outlets for our children.
We want to support and nurture our artists and humanists
and the traditions that they represent. And we want also to bring
those traditions alive for literally millions and millions of
children who too often grow up without opportunities for creative
expression; without opportunities for intellectual stimulation;
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without exposure to the diverse cultural traditions that contribute
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to our identity as Americans.
Too often today, instead of children discovering the
joyful rewards of painting, or music, or sculpting, or writing, or
testing a new idea, they express themselves through acts of
frustration, helplessness, hopelessness and even violence.
We see too clearly how an erosion and breakdown of our
most charished institutions has resulted in a fraying of the whole
social fabric. We see it most tragically in children killing
children.
We know that the arts have the potential for
obliterating the limits that are too often imposed on our lives. We
know that they can take anyone, but particularly a child, and
transport that child beyond the bounds that circumstance has
prescribed.
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The arts and humanities have the potential for being
such safe havens. In communities where programs already exist, they
are providing soul-saving and life-enhancing opportunities for young
people. And I am delighted that as one of its major endeavors this
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committee will be considering ways of expanding those opportunities
to all of our children.
this
Doing what we can here in the White House and throughout
the
Administration to promote and nurture the arts and humanities is
one of the great pleasures that has been ours in the last 20 months.
The President believes so strongly in the role that arts and
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humanities has played in individual lives and in our collective life
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as a nation. As a child, he found so much joy and challenge in music
and in the other art forms. And together, we have tried in our own
lives and with our own daughter to provide that kind of exposure and
opportunity.
so it is with great pleasure and particular joy, in
front of this group on this day, for me to introduce the President of
the United States. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, the First Lady and
my old friend John Brademas, and to all of you who have agreed to
serve, and your friends and supporters who are here.
I thank you for coming. Before I make the remarks that
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I want to make to you, I believe in view of the events of the last
few days, and particularly the events of the last 24 hours, I should
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make a short statement about the situation in Haiti.
The deployment of our forces there is now going quite
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well. As a result of the agreement we have reached last weekend, we
now have 8,500 United States troops who have entered Haiti peacefully
without any resistance. The multinational force, which was enhanced
of Remarks
today by the decision of Australia to join will soon be in a position
to carry out its overriding mission: to ensure the transfer of power
from the de facto military leaders to the democratically-elected
government of Haiti by October the 15th.
I must also tell you how strongly wa condemned
yesterday's police violence there. such conduct cannot and will not
be tolerated. General Shelton, our Commander on the ground, has met
with the Haitian military and police officials today and made clear
our policy to them.
During this transition period, the Haitian military will
carry out basic police functions. Our Armed Forces cannot and will
not become Haiti's police force. But we can work to see that the
Haitian military and police operate in a responsible and professional
manner. Today, we are deploying on schedule 1,000 United States
military police who will monitor the Haitian police, and by their own
presence help to deter violence. In the days ahead we will
reintroduce into Haiti human rights monitors who were expelled
several weeks ago, and bring in police monitors as part of the
multinational force.
Today is only the second day of this mission. The
situation in Haiti will not change immediately. But today is better
than yesterday. And yesterday was better than the day before. We
will keep going. We- will make steady progress. We will restore
democracy.
As we move toward the 15th of october, we will also work
to moderate the-conduct of Haitian security forces without assuming
the responsibilities. Then after the democratic government raturns
to power, the coalition will help it to devise a long-term plan of
police and military reform, including retraining people so that they
can perform to their fullest capabilities in an appropriate manner
for a democratic society.
We went into Haiti to help stop the senseless, tragic
terror that has plagued the nation since the.democratically-elected
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government was forced from power. The habits of violence will not be
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shed overnight. But during the coming weeks, we will work to help
stop the violence and to begin the process of reconciliation.
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I thank the American people for their understanding and
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increasing support for this endeavor. And, again, let me say my
special word of appreciation to our troops there and to their
families and all those who have supported them. (Applause.)
Now, let me thank you all again, all of you who
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agreed to serve on the President's Committee on Arts and humanities,
to underscore the vital partnership that must exist between your
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government and the private citizens who do the work of the arts and
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humanities in our nation. I want to thank the First Lady for
agreeing to be the honorary chair, although this is a job she wanted,
unlike some of those I've asked her to take on. (Laughter.) You
couldn't have a much more appreciative or informed friend.
I am also very, very pleased that John Brademas has
agreed to serve as the chairman. I have known him for many years
since his distinguished career in the United states Congress and
through his brilliant presidency of New York University. I think he
is one of our nation's most outstanding citizens and will certainly
be one of the most eloquent advocates imaginable for the cause you
are here to further. (Applause.)
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He also happens to have been an original cosponsor of
the bill that created the National Endowment for the Arts and
Humanities, and he wrote the bill that established the Institute of
Museum Services. He also promised to give me free congressional
lobbying advice on the side in return for this appointment.
(Laughter.)
I have charged the President's Committee with advancing
public understanding of the arts and humanities, which is so
important to our democracy, and to establish new partnerships between
the federal agencies and the private sector.
with establishing
As a sign of our commitment to the arts and humanities
today, we have here with us members of the Cabinet and the
administration, including Secretary Riley, Sheldon Hackney, Jane
Alexander, Joe Duffy, and a number of other government officials.
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I appointed as all of you can see an extraordinary group
of Americans to this committee artists, scholars, writers,
the
thinkers, leaders in the corporate world and the philanthropic
community, committed citizens, activists recognized in their
communities -- people who represent outstanding achievement and a
commitment to the cultural life of our nation -- a commitment to keep
it alive and to make it more accessible.
By this time next year, I want you to deliver to me a
report on the progress we're making in furthering America's cultural
life. For 200 years the arts and humanities have helped to bridge
American differences, learned to appreciate differences that helped
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Americans to learn to appreciate differences, one from another, and
to build strong and vibrant institutions across our country. You
must help us explore ways to do this better.
The most disturbing thing to me about American life
today is not the problems we have, although we have problems of
plenty, it is the lack of unity among Americans and the lack of
optimism we feel in dealing with those problems.
Just a couple of weeks ago, a distinguished
international panel of economists said that the United States was the
most productive country in the world. They said that for the first
time in almost a decade because the remarkable resurgence of our
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economy, because of the number of jobs we're creating, because we
accounted for almost all the job growth and three-quarters of the
economic growth in the seven great industrial nations of the world in
the last year and a half, and because we are taking on a lot of our
biggest challenges -- bringing our government deficit down three
years in a row for the first time since Mr. Truman was president --
the only country of all the advanced economies to do that. And yet,
so many Americans still feel that we're kind of adrift and falling
apart from one another.
Maybe even more important as you look toward the 21st
century -- isn't it interesting that in the last year and a half the
South Africans wanted us to spend $35 million and send our best
people to South Africa to work on making that election a success.
The Irish and the English have been fighting for eight centuries now.
They wanted the United States to be involved in the process of
reconciliation that is now taking hold in Northern Ireland. After
decades of brutal struggle, the Israelis and the Arabs working
together to make peace in the Middle East want the Americans to be
centrally involved.
Even in the moment of our greatest tension a few days
ago in Haiti, one, of the military leaders said, well, if the
President is determined to do this, and the world community is
absolutely determined to go ahead, we want the Americans here. Why
is that? We have Haitian Americans, Jewish Americans, Arab
Americans, Irish Americans, English Americans. You think of it --
this diversity we have which cuts across racial and religious and
philosophical and regional and income lines it is the source of our
great strength today in a world that is ever more interdependent.
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And people look at us and say, you know with their all
their problems -- yes, their crime rate's too high; and, yes, they're
too violent; yes, too many of their kids drop out of school; and,
yes, there's too much income inequality, especially for working
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people -- but you know, they pretty well get along. And people from
all different kinds of backgrounds wind up pursuing their chosen path
in life and living up to their God-given potential.
And they're
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circumstance are imposing on them. That's what others think about
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We somehow have to begin to think that about ourselves
again. And I cannot help but believe that the arts and humanities
must play a central role in that task. How we imagine our own lives
and our own future and how we imagine ourselves as a country will
have as big an impact on what it is we ultimately become as anything
in the world.
I said the other day, I will just say again, a lot of
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you have been involved in various enterprises, great business
enterprises, great arts enterprises, great entertainment enterprises.
Just imagine how you would function if everyday in all the important
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years of your life you showed up for work and two-thirds of the
people you were working with thought that your outfit was going in
the wrong direction and nothing good could happen. (Laughter.)
Imagine what would happen if the National Gallery of Art were given
the most priceless collection of impressionist paintings uncovered
after having been thought destroyed for 50 years, and two-thirds of
the people-said, I don't believe they're impressionist paintings.
(Laughter.) I know Monet -- was a friend of mine. That's not
him. (Laughter.) Don't bother me. with the facts. (Laughter.)
You're laughing because you know that it's true, don't you?
(Laughter.) There is a grain of truth in this. Somehow we have to
not sweep our problems under the rug and not sweep our differences
under the rug, for that is also what makes America great.
But we only find energy for dealing with our problems
and the heart and the hearing to deal with our differences when at
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doing and where we're going. And I feel so good about the work we've
done to move America forward in the last 20 months, but we'd all have
to admit we've still got a lot of work to do in bringing America
together in giving our people a realistic feeling about where we are
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in the world and where we're going. You can do that. You can make a
huge difference. The arts and humanities have always helped to do
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that work.
So I urge you to continue in this work. I urge you to
make your progress report to me. I urge you to remember what we are
trying to do in our schools in helping to improve our children's
education with the arts and humanities. I urge you to work to expand
private philanthropy. We all know that the government in this
country provides a crucial measure, but only a tiny measure of the
support that the arts and humanities need.
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I urge you to promote international cultural exchange
and understanding, not only because we need desperately to know more
about others throughout the world, but because I believe that we'll
learn a lot more about ourselves if we just come in contact with
people from other walks of life and other paths of the world.
Thanks to phones, faxes, internet, E-mail, CNN, we can
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see the power of our cultural traditions as they are exported around
the world. And sometimes they come back to us. We had the only --
we're the first White House to communicate with huge numbers of
people from all over by E-mail. And I'm trying to do a sociological
analysis now of whether there's a difference between the E-mail
communication and the mail communication -- or the female
communication. (Laughter.)
I am very hopeful that you will make a remarkable
contribution to this country. I went over this list of people with
great care. I tried to get a very different group of people. I
tried to imagine all the different things that I hope that this
committee could deal with and all the different challenges I hope you
could assume. If I haven't done a good job, it's not your fault it's
mine in picking you, but I think you're pretty special.
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Let me say in closing that E hope that in addition to
the schools, you can think about how we can increase access to the
arts and humanities all across America to people who might otherwise
be isolated from them -- people who are homebound, people who live in
very isolated areas, people who now don't even know how to speak the
language that would be necessary to ask for something that might
change their lives forever. I ask you also to think of that.
We've faced a lot of challenges as a country, but I'm
actually pretty optimistic about it based on the objective evidence.
What remains is whether we can develop a vision that will sustain us
as a people as we move through a period of change without a known big
enemy into an uncertain future. It requires courage, but courage
comes from having something inside that you can connect with what you
see outside.
You can help us as we work our way through this in this
remarkable time in our country's history. I hope you enjoy it. I
thank you for serving. And I thank you for being here today.
Thank you. (Applause.)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 21, 1994
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND THE FIRST LADY
AT THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CEREMONY
The East Room
4:56 P.M. EDT
MRS. CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank
you and please be seated.
It is a great pleasure for the President and I to
welcome all of you to the White House. We are very pleased and proud
of this committee and are grateful to all who agreed to serve, and
are particularly grateful to Dr. Brademas for taking on the job of
being the chair; the distinguished vice-chairs; and everyone who has
been willing to take their time for this commitment.
We believe this is an important day for those of us who
care deeply about American culture. It's important not only because
this committee has so much potential to do good in ways that will
affect the lives of Americans, but also by focusing particularly in
providing hopeful and productive outlets for our children.
We want to support and nurture our artists and humanists
and the traditions that they represent. And we want also to bring
those traditions alive for literally millions and millions of
children who too often grow up without opportunities for creative
expression; without opportunities for intellectual stimulation;
without exposure to the diverse cultural traditions that contribute
to our identity as Americans.
Too often today, instead of children discovering the
joyful rewards of painting, or music, or sculpting, or writing, or
testing a new idea, they express themselves through acts of
frustration, helplessness, hopelessness and even violence.
We see too clearly how an erosion and breakdown of our
most cherished institutions has resulted in a fraying of the whole
social fabric. We see it most tragically in children killing
children.
We know that the arts have the potential for
obliterating the limits that are too often imposed on our lives. We
know that they can take anyone, but particularly a child, and
transport that child beyond the bounds that circumstance has
prescribed.
We hope that among the many contributions this committee
makes it will be thinking and offering ideas about how we can provide
children with safe havens to develop and explore their own creative
and intellectual potential.
The arts and humanities have the potential for being
such safe havens. In communities where programs already exist, they
are providing soul-saving and life-enhancing opportunities for young
people. And I am delighted that as one of its major endeavors this
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committee will be considering ways of expanding those opportunities
to all of our children.
Doing what we can here in the White House and throughout
the administration to promote and nurture the arts and humanities is
one of the great pleasures that has been ours in the last 20 months.
The President believes so strongly in the role that arts and
humanities has played in individual lives and in our collective life
as a nation. As a child, he found so much joy and challenge in music
and in the other art forms. And together, we have tried in our own
lives and with our own daughter to provide that kind of exposure and
opportunity.
So it is with great pleasure and particular joy, in
front of this group on this day, for me to introduce the President of
the United States. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, the First Lady and
my old friend John Brademas, and to all of you who have agreed to
serve, and your friends and supporters who are here.
I thank you for coming. Before I make the remarks that
I want to make to you, I believe in view of the events of the last
few days, and particularly the events of the last 24 hours, I should
make a short statement about the situation in Haiti.
The deployment of our forces there is now going quite
well. As a result of the agreement we have reached last weekend, we
now have 8,500 United States troops who have entered Haiti peacefully
without any resistance. The multinational force, which was enhanced
today by the decision of Australia to join will soon be in a position
to carry out its overriding mission: to ensure the transfer of power
from the de facto military leaders to the democratically-elected
government of Haiti by October the 15th.
I must also tell you how strongly we condemned
yesterday's police violence there. Such conduct cannot and will not
be tolerated. General Shelton, our Commander on the ground, has met
with the Haitian military and police officials today and made clear
our policy to them.
During this transition period, the Haitian military will
carry out basic police functions. Our Armed Forces cannot and will
not become Haiti's police force. But we can work to see that the
Haitian military and police operate in a responsible and professional
manner. Today, we are deploying on schedule 1,000 United States
military police who will monitor the Haitian police, and by their own
presence help to deter violence. In the days ahead we will
reintroduce into Haiti human rights monitors who were expelled
several weeks ago, and bring in police monitors as part of the
multinational force.
Today is only the second day of this mission. The
situation in Haiti will not change immediately. But today is better
than yesterday. And yesterday was better than the day before. We
will keep going. We will make steady progress. We will restore
democracy.
As we move toward the 15th of October, we will also work
to moderate the conduct of Haitian security forces without assuming
the responsibilities. Then after the democratic government returns
to power, the coalition will help it to devise a long-term plan of
police and military reform, including retraining people so that they
can perform to their fullest capabilities in an appropriate manner
for a democratic society.
We went into Haiti to help stop the senseless, tragic
terror that has plagued the nation since the democratically-elected
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government was forced from power. The habits of violence will not be
shed overnight. But during the coming weeks, we will work to help
stop the violence and to begin the process of reconciliation.
I thank the American people for their understanding and
increasing support for this endeavor. And, again, let me say my
special word of appreciation to our troops there and to their
families and all those who have supported them. (Applause.)
Now, let me thank you all again, all of you who've
agreed to serve on the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities,
to underscore the vital partnership that must exist between your
government and the private citizens who do the work of the arts and
humanities in our nation. I want to thank the First Lady for
agreeing to be the honorary chair, although this is a job she wanted,
unlike some of those I've asked her to take on. (Laughter.) You
couldn't have a much more appreciative or informed friend.
I am also very, very pleased that John Brademas has
agreed to serve as the chairman. I have known him for many years
since his distinguished career in the United States Congress and
through his brilliant presidency of New York University. I think he
is one of our nation's most outstanding citizens and will certainly
be one of the most eloquent advocates imaginable for the cause you
are here to further. (Applause.)
He also happens to have been an original cosponsor of
the bill that created the National Endowment for the Arts and
Humanities, and he wrote the bill that established the Institute of
Museum Services. He also promised to give me free congressional
lobbying advice on the side in return for this appointment.
(Laughter.)
I have charged the President's Committee with advancing
public understanding of the arts and humanities, which is so
important to our democracy, and to establish new partnerships between
the federal agencies and the private sector.
As a sign of our commitment to the arts and humanities
today, we have here with us members of the Cabinet and the
administration, including Secretary Riley, Sheldon Hackney, Jane
Alexander, Joe Duffy, and a number of other government officials.
I appointed as all of you can see an extraordinary group
of Americans to this committee -- artists, scholars, writers,
thinkers, leaders in the corporate world and the philanthropic
community, committed citizens, activists recognized in their
communities -- people who represent outstanding achievement and a
commitment to the cultural life of our nation -- a commitment to keep
it alive and to make it more accessible.
By this time next year, I want you to deliver to me a
report on the progress we're making in furthering America's cultural
life. For 200 years the arts and humanities have helped to bridge
American differences, learned to appreciate differences that helped
Americans to learn to appreciate differences, one from another, and
to build strong and vibrant institutions across our country. You
must help us explore ways to do this better.
The most disturbing thing to me about American life
today is not the problems we have, although we have problems of
plenty, it is the lack of unity among Americans and the lack of
optimism we feel in dealing with those problems.
Just a couple of weeks ago, a distinguished
international panel of economists said that the United States was the
most productive country in the world. They said that for the first
time in almost a decade because the remarkable resurgence of our
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economy, because of the number of jobs we're creating, because we
accounted for almost all the job growth and three-quarters of the
economic growth in the seven great industrial nations of the world in
the last year and a half, and because we are taking on a lot of our
biggest challenges -- bringing our government deficit down three
years in a row for the first time since Mr. Truman was president --
the only country of all the advanced economies to do that. And yet,
so many Americans still feel that we're kind of adrift and falling
apart from one another.
Maybe even more important as you look toward the 21st
century -- isn't it interesting that in the last year and a half the
South Africans wanted us to spend $35 million and send our best
people to South Africa to work on making that election a success.
The Irish and the English have been fighting for eight centuries now.
They wanted the United States to be involved in the process of
reconciliation that is now taking hold in Northern Ireland. After
decades of brutal struggle, the Israelis and the Arabs working
together to make peace in the Middle East want the Americans to be
centrally involved.
Even in the moment of our greatest tension a few days
ago in Haiti, one of the military leaders said, well, if the
President is determined to do this, and the world community is
absolutely determined to go ahead, we want the Americans here. Why
is that? We have Haitian Americans, Jewish Americans, Arab
Americans, Irish Americans, English Americans. You think of it --
this diversity we have which cuts across racial and religious and
philosophical and regional and income lines, it is the source of our
great strength today in a world that is ever more interdependent.
And people look at us and say, you know, with their all
their problems -- yes, their crime rate's too high; and, yes, they're
too violent; yes, too many of their kids drop out of school; and,
yes, there's too much income inequality, especially for working
people -- but you know, they pretty well get along. And people from
all different kinds of backgrounds wind up pursuing their chosen path
in life and living up to their God-given potential. And they're
adaptable -- they work their way through the changes that time and
circumstance are imposing on them. That's what others think about
us.
We somehow have to begin to think that about ourselves
again. And I cannot help but believe that the arts and humanities
must play a central role in that task. How we imagine our own lives
and our own future and how we imagine ourselves as a country will
have as big an impact on what it is we ultimately become as anything
in the world.
I said the other day, I will just say again, a lot of
you have been involved in various enterprises, great business
enterprises, great arts enterprises, great entertainment enterprises.
Just imagine how you would function if everyday in all the important
years of your life you showed up for work and two-thirds of the
people you were working with thought that your outfit was going in
the wrong direction and nothing good could happen. (Laughter.)
Imagine what would happen if the National Gallery of Art were given
the most priceless collection of impressionist paintings uncovered
after having been thought destroyed for 50 years, and two-thirds of
the people said, I don't believe they're impressionist paintings.
(Laughter.) I know Monet -- he was a friend of mine. That's not
him. (Laughter.) Don't bother me with the facts. (Laughter.)
You're laughing because you know that it's true, don't you?
(Laughter.) There is a grain of truth in this. Somehow we have to
not sweep our problems under the rug and not sweep our differences
under the rug, for that is also what makes America great.
But we only find energy for dealing with our problems
and the heart and the hearing to deal with our differences when at
least we have a realistic appreciation of where we are, what we're
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doing and where we're going. And I feel so good about the work we've
done to move America forward in the last 20 months, but we'd all have
to admit we've still got a lot of work to do in bringing America
together in giving our people a realistic feeling about where we are
in the world and where we're going. You can do that. You can make a
huge difference. The arts and humanities have always helped to do
that work.
So I urge you to continue in this work. I urge you to
make your progress report to me. I urge you to remember what we are
trying to do in our schools in helping to improve our children's
education with the arts and humanities. I urge you to work to expand
private philanthropy. We all know that the government in this
country provides a crucial measure, but only a tiny measure of the
support that the arts and humanities need.
I urge you to promote international cultural exchange
and understanding, not only because we need desperately to know more
about others throughout the world, but because I believe that we'll
learn a lot more about ourselves if we just come in contact with
people from other walks of life and other paths of the world.
Thanks to phones, faxes, internet, E-mail, CNN, we can
see the power of our cultural traditions as they are exported around
the world. And sometimes they come back to us. We had the only --
we're the first White House to communicate with huge numbers of
people from all over by E-mail. And I'm trying to do a sociological
analysis now of whether there's a difference between the E-mail
communication and the mail communication -- or the female
communication. (Laughter.)
I am very hopeful that you will make a remarkable
contribution to this country. I went over this list of people with
great care. I tried to get a very different group of people. I
tried to imagine all the different things that I hope that this
committee could deal with and all the different challenges I hope you
could assume. If I haven't done a good job, it's not your fault it's
mine in picking you, but I think you're pretty special.
Let me say in closing that I hope that in addition to
the schools, you can think about how we can increase access to the
arts and humanities all across America to people who might otherwise
be isolated from them -- people who are homebound, people who live in
very isolated areas, people who now don't even know how to speak the
language that would be necessary to ask for something that might
change their lives forever. I ask you also to think of that.
We've faced a lot of challenges as a country, but I'm
actually pretty optimistic about it based on the objective evidence.
What remains is whether we can develop a vision that will sustain us
as a people as we move through a period of change without a known big
enemy into an uncertain future. It requires courage, but courage
comes from having something inside that you can connect with what you
see outside.
You can help us as we work our way through this in this
remarkable time in our country's history. I hope you enjoy it. I
thank you for serving. And I thank you for being here today.
Thank you. (Applause.)
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Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 19, 1994
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES NEW MEMBERS TO THE PRESIDENT'S
COMMITTEE ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
President Clinton today announced he is revitalizing the President's Committee on
the Arts and the Humanities and intends to name Dr. John Brademas to chair the
Committee. The President also announced his intention to name 32 private citizens to
serve as members of the Committee, and he announced that First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton will serve as Honorary Chair.
In making these appointments the President said, "The federal, state and local
governments together provide only a small percentage of the support essential to our
cultural life. These appointments underscore the vital partnership between the
government and the private citizens who do so much to enrich and preserve the arts and
humanities in our country. I am pleased that John Brademas, who has been a vigorous
champion of learning and culture both in Congress and as a university president, has
agreed to chair the Committee. At a time when our society faces new and profound
challenges, when we are losing so many of our children, and when so many people feel
insecure in the face of change, the arts and the humanities are fundamental to our lives
as individuals and as a nation."
The President's Committee, created by Executive Order in 1982, is charged with
advancing public understanding of the arts and the humanities and establishing new
partnerships between the private sector and federal agencies to address critical issues in
cultural life.
The Committee will hold its first formal meeting with President and the First
Lady on Wednesday, September 21 at the White House. The President will charge its
members to support cultural programs that reach at-risk youth, expand private
philanthropic assistance for the humanities and the arts, encourage international cultural
exchanges and develop new private sector resources to aid cultural organizations.
Dr. John Brademas, who will serve as the Committee's Chairman, is President
Emeritus of New York University and a former U.S. Representative in Congress from
Indiana's Third Congressional District (1959-81).
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Said Dr. Brademas of his appointment, "What we do in the arts and the
humanities tells who we are as a people. Our educational and cultural institutions are
indispensable to the quality of our lives, the strength of our communities and the vitality
of our democracy. For the arts and the humanities to thrive now and into the next
century, we must have the support of both the government and the private sector."
Dr. Brademas was an original cosponsor of the National Arts and Humanities Act
of 1965, the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and for 10 years he chaired the Congressional
subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Endowments. He was co-author, with Senator
Claiborne Pell, of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act and the Museum Services Act,
that created the Institute of Museum Services. In 1990 he co-chaired, with Leonard
Garment, the Independent Commission mandated by Congress to study the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, a former director of the Vermont Arts Council, was
named Executive Director by the President in February. Prior to her appointment, she
served for ten years as Chief of Staff for Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
The President also named three vice chairs for the Committee:
Peggy Cooper Cafritz of Washington, D.C.
Ms. Cafritz is a long-time advocate of the arts in Washington, a past chair of the D.C.
Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and she currently heads the Ellington Fund,
the fund-raising arm of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Cynthia Perrin Schneider of Sandy Spring, Maryland
Ms. Schneider is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Georgetown University and author
of Rembrandt's Landscapes: Prints and Designs and numerous other studies in art history.
Terry Semel of Los Angeles, California
Mr. Semel is Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Warner Brothers.
In addition to Dr. Brademas and the three vice-chairs, the other private citizens
appointed to the Committee are:
Susan Barnes-Gelt of Denver, Colorado
Ms. Barnes-Gelt is Deputy Director of the International Center at the University of
Colorado at Denver and a member of the Colorado Council on the Arts.
Lerone Bennett, Jr. of Chicago, Illinois
Mr. Bennett is the Executive Editor of Ebony magazine and the author of several
popular works on African-American history and culture.
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Madeleine Harris Berman of Franklin, Michigan
Ms. Berman currently serves as Vice Chairman of the American Council on the Arts and
is Chairman of the National Clearing House and Archive for Arts Policy Research.
Curt Bradbury of Little Rock, Arkansas
Mr. Bradbury is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Worthen Banking
Corporation and serves as the Chairman of the Arkansas State Board of Higher
Education.
John H. Bryan of Chicago, Illinois
Mr. Bryan is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee
Corporation. He is a past Chairman of the Business Committee for the Arts and serves
on the Trustees Council of the National Gallery of Art and the board of directors for the
Art Institute of Chicago.
Hilario Candela of Coral Gables, Florida
Mr. Candela is President of Spillis, Candela and Partners, the largest minority-owned
architectural, engineering and interior design firm in the United States.
Anne Cox Chambers of Atlanta, Georgia
Ms. Chambers was formerly U.S. ambassador to Belgium and is Chairman of Atlanta
Newspapers, Inc., which owns and operates the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Margaret Corbett Daley of Chicago, Illinois
Mrs. Daley is the First Lady of the city of Chicago and the Chair of the Chicago Cultural
Center Foundation. She created and serves as Chair of Gallery 37, a summer program
which offers employment in the arts to Chicago-area youth.
Everett Fly of San Antonio, Texas
Mr. Fly is President of E.L. Fly and Associates, a landscape design firm. He currently
serves on the board of the Texas Committee for the Humanities and has directed a
national project to document the evolution of historic African-American settlements in
the United States.
David P. Gardner of Menlo Park, California
Mr. Gardner is the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He was
formerly the President of the nine-campus University of California system and President
of the University of Utah.
Harvey Golub of Saddle River, New Jersey
Mr. Golub is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the American Express Company
and serves on the board of Carnegie Hall.
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Richard S. Gurin of Easton, Pennsylvania
Mr. Gurin is President and Chief Executive Officer of Binney & Smith, the
manufacturers of Crayola products. Mr. Gurin has served on national advisory panels in
arts education, including the National Committee for Standards in the Arts and the
Coalition for Goals 2000.
Irene Y. Hirano of Los Angeles, California
Ms. Hirano is Executive Director and President of the Japanese American National
Museum which opened in April 1992.
David Henry Hwang of Marina del Ray, California
Mr. Hwang, a playwright and screenwriter, is the author of M. Butterfly and other
acclaimed works for the stage and screen.
William Ivey of Nashville, Tennessee
Mr. Ivey is the Director of the Country Music Foundation and an author and scholar
who specializes in folk music. He serves on the executive board of the American
Folklore Society.
Quincy Jones of Los Angeles, California
Mr. Jones is a musician, composer, film and record producer, and record company
executive and multi-media entrepreneur. In the course of his career he has won 27
Grammy Awards and the prestigious Polar Music Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy
of Music.
Robert Menschel of New York City, New York
Mr. Menschel is a Limited Partner with the Goldman Sachs Group, a New York
investment firm. He serves on numerous boards including those of the Museum of
Modern Art, the New York Public Library, and the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, N.J.
Rita Moreno of New York City and Los Angeles, California
Ms. Moreno is an actress, singer, and dancer and the only female performer to have won
an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Grammy for her performances on television, film, the
Broadway stage, and for musical performances.
Jaroslav Pelikan of New Haven, Connecticut
Dr. Pelikan is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and the President of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Anthony Podesta of Washington, D.C.
Mr. Podesta is an attorney and President of Podesta Associates, a national public policy
and public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C. He was the founding President of
People for the American Way.
Phyllis Rosen of New York City, New York
Ms. Rosen is a real estate developer and President of P. Rosen, Inc. She serves on the
New Jersey Council on the Arts and has been active in the development of the Park East
Day School in New York City.
Ann Sheffer of Westport, Connecticut
Ms. Sheffer is active in the theatre and serves on the Westport Arts Advisory Council,
the board of the Westport Art Center, and the Westport Education Foundation.
Isaac Stern of New York City, New York.
Mr. Stern is an internationally known violinist. He has served as the President of
Carnegie Hall for over 30 years and is active with many other cultural organizations.
Dave Warren of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mr. Warren is a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo (Tewa) and is Vice President of
Media Resources Associates, Inc., which is producing a nine part television program on
Native American art and culture. He was active in the creation of the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.
Shirley Wilhite of Shreveport, Louisiana
Ms. Wilhite is a civic leader who has been active in the arts. She serves on the
Shreveport Regional Arts Council and is also active in the Aspen-Snowmass Colorado
Arts Council.
Harold Williams of Los Angeles, California
Mr. Williams is President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which
administers funds for education and research in the arts and the humanities. An
attorney, Mr. Williams is also the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has named:
Emily Malino of Washington, D.C. as his designee. Ms. Malino is a senior partner with
Metcalf, Tobey and Partners, a commercial interior design firm based in Reston, Va.
She has been cited by Interiors magazine as one of the ten most influential designers in
America.
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The government members who serve ex-officio are the Chairman of the National
Endowment for the Arts; the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities;
the Director of the Institute of Museum Services; the Secretary of the Treasury; the
Secretary of the Interior; the Secretary of Education; the Librarian of Congress; the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; the Director of the National Gallery of Art; the
Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the Director of the
United States Information Agency; and the Administrator of the General Services
Administration. In addition to the members chosen by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the Senate Majority Leader, the Secretary of State may also
designate a member.
The Secretary of State has named Timothy Wirth of Washington, D.C. as his
designee. Mr. Wirth currently serves as Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs.
A White House photo of Mrs. Clinton and Dr. Brademas is available from the
White House Press Office and Media Affairs.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 21, 1994
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND THE FIRST LADY
AT THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CEREMONY
The East Room
4:56 P.M. EDT
MRS. CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank you and please be seated.
It is a great pleasure for the President and me to
welcome all of you to the White House. We are very pleased and
proud of this committee and are grateful to all who agreed to
serve, and are particularly grateful to Dr. Brademas for taking on
the job of being the chair; the distinguished vice-chairs; and
everyone who has been willing to take time for this commitment.
We believe this is an important day for those of us
who care deeply about American culture. It's important because
this committee has so much potential not only to do good in ways
that will affect the lives of Americans, but also to focus
particularly on providing hopeful and productive outlets for our
children.
We want to support and nurture our artists and
humanists and the traditions that they represent. And we want also
to bring those traditions alive for literally millions and millions
of children who too often grow up without opportunities for
creative expression; without opportunities for intellectual
stimulation; without exposure to the diverse cultural traditions
that contribute to our identity as Americans.
Too often today, instead of children discovering the
joyful rewards of painting, or music, or sculpting, or writing, or
testing a new idea, they express themselves through acts of
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frustration, helplessness, hopelessness and even violence.
We see too clearly how an erosion and breakdown of
our most cherished institutions have resulted in a fraying of the
whole social fabric. We see it most tragically in children killing
children.
We know that the arts have the potential for
obliterating the limits that are too often imposed on our lives.
We know that they can take anyone, but particularly a child, and
transport that child beyond the bounds the circumstance has
prescribed.
We hope that among the many contributions this
committee makes, it will be thinking and offering ideas about how
we can provide children with safe havens to develop and explore
their own creative and intellectual potential.
The arts and humanities have the potential for being
such safe havens. In communities where programs already exist,
they are providing soul-saving and life-enhancing opportunities for
young people. And I am delighted that as one of its major
endeavors, this committee will be considering ways of expanding
those opportunities to all of our children.
Doing what we can here in the White House and
throughout this administration to promote and nurture the arts and
humanities is one of the great pleasures that has been ours in the
last 20 months. The President believes so strongly in the role
that the arts and humanities have played in individual lives and
in our collective life as a nation. As a child, he found so much
joy and challenge in music and in the other art forms. And
together, we have tried in our own lives and with our own daughter
to provide that kind of exposure and opportunity.
So it is with great pleasure and particular joy, in
front of this group on this day, for me to introduce the President
of the United States. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT. Thank you very much, the First Lady
and my old friend John Brademas, and to all of you who have agreed
to serve, and your friends and supporters who are here.
I thank you for coming. Before I make the remarks
that I want to make to you, I believe in view of the events of the
last few days, and particularly the events of the last 24 hours,
I should make a short statement about the situation in Haiti.
Now, let me thank you all again, all of you who've
agreed to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities, to underscore the vital partnership that must exist
between your government and the private citizens who do the work
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of the arts and humanities in our nation. I want to thank the
First Lady for agreeing to be the honorary chair, although this is
a job she wanted, unlike some of those I've asked her to take on.
(Laughter.) You couldn't have a much more appreciative or informed
friend.
I am also very, very pleased that John Brademas has
agreed to serve as the chairman. I have known him for many years
since his distinguished career in the United States Congress and
through his brilliant presidency of New York University. I think
he is one of our nation's most outstanding citizens and will
certainly be one of the most eloquent advocates imaginable for the
cause you are here to further. (Applause.)
He also happens to have been an original cosponsor
of the bill that created the National Endowment for the Arts and
the Humanities, and he wrote the bill that established the
Institute of Museum Services. He also promised to give me free
congressional lobbying advice on the side in return for his
appointment. (Laughter.)
I have charged the President's Committee with
advancing public understanding of the arts and humanities, which
is so important to our democracy, and to establish new partnerships
between the federal agencies and the private sector.
As a sign of our commitment to the arts and
humanities today, we have here with us members of the Cabinet and
the administration, including Secretary Riley, Sheldon Hackney,
Jane Alexander, Joe Duffey, and a number of other government
officials.
I appointed, as all of you can see, an extraordinary
group of Americans to this committee -- artists, scholars, writers,
thinkers, leaders in the corporate world and the philanthropic
community, committed citizens, activists recognized in their
communities -- people who represent outstanding achievement and a
commitment to the cultural life of our nation -- a commitment to
keep it alive and to make it more accessible.
By this time next year, I want you to deliver to me
a report on the progress we're making in furthering America's
cultural life. For 200 years the arts and humanities have helped
to bridge American differences, learned to appreciate differences
that helped Americans to learn to appreciate differences, one from
another, and to build strong and vibrant institutions across our
country. You must help us explore ways to do this better.
The most disturbing thing to me about American life
today is not the problems we have, although we have problems a-
plenty, it is the lack of unity among Americans and the lack of
optimism we feel in dealing with those problems.
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Just a couple of weeks ago, a distinguished
international panel of economists said that the United States was
the most productive country in the world. They said that for the
first time in almost a decade because of the remarkable resurgence
of our economy, because of the number of jobs we're creating,
because we accounted for almost all the job growth and three-
quarters of the economic growth in the seven great industrial
nations of the world in the last year and a half, and because we
are taking on a lot of our biggest challenges -- bringing our
government deficit down three years in a row for the first time
since Mr. Truman was president -- the only country of all the
advanced economies to do that. And yet, so many Americans still
feel that we're kind of adrift and falling apart from one another.
Maybe even more important, as you look toward the
21st century, isn't it interesting that in the last year and a half
the South Africans wanted us to spend $35 million and send our best
people to South Africa to work on making that election a success?
The Irish and the English have been fighting for eight centuries
now. They wanted the United States to be involved in the process
of reconciliation that is now taking hold in Northern Ireland.
After decades of brutal struggle, the Israelis and the Arabs
working together to make peace in the Middle East want the
Americans to be centrally involved.
Even in the moment of our greatest tension a few
days ago in Haiti, one of the military leaders said, well, if the
President is determined to do this, and the world community is
absolutely determined to go ahead, we want the Americans here. Why
is that? We have Haitian Americans, Jewish Americans, Arab
Americans, Irish Americans, English Americans. You think of it -
- this diversity we have which cuts across racial and religious and
philosophical and regional and income lines -- it is the source of
our great strength today in a world that is ever more
interdependent.
And people look at us and say, you know, with all
their problems -- yes, their crime rate's too high; and, yes,
they're too violent; yes, too many of their kids drop out of
school; and yes, there's too much income inequality, especially for
working people -- but you know, they get along pretty well. And
people from all different kinds of backgrounds wind up pursuing
their chosen path in life and living up to their God-given
potential. And they're adaptable -- they work their way through
the changes that time and circumstance are imposing on them.
That's what others think about us.
We somehow have to begin to think that about
ourselves again. And I cannot help but believe that the arts and
humanities must play a central role in that task. How we imagine
our own lives and our own future and how we imagine ourselves as
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a country will have as big an impact on what it is we ultimately
become as anything in the world.
I said the other day, I will just say again, a lot
of you have been involved in various enterprises, great business
enterprises, great arts enterprises, great entertainment
enterprises. Just imagine how you would function if everyday in
all the important years of your life you showed up for work and
two-thirds of the people you were working with thought that your
outfit was going in the wrong direction and nothing good could
happen. (Laughter.) Imagine what would happen if the National
Gallery of Art were given the most priceless collection of
impressionist paintings uncovered after having been thought
destroyed for 50 years, and two-thirds of the people said, I don't
believe they're Impressionist paintings. (Laughter.) I know Monet
-- he was a friend of mine. That's not him. (Laughter.) Don't
bother me with the facts. (Laughter.) You're laughing because you
know that it's true, don't you? (Laughter.) There is a grain of
truth in this. Somehow we have to not sweep our problems under the
rug and not sweep our differences under the rug, for that is also
what makes America great.
But we only find energy for dealing with our
problems and the heart and the hearing to deal with our differences
when at least we have a realistic appreciation of where we are,
what we're doing and where we're going. And I feel so good about
the work we've done to move America forward in the last 20 months,
but we'd all have to admit we've still got a lot of work to do in
bringing America together, in giving our people a realistic feeling
about where we are in the world and where we're going. You can do
that. You can make a huge difference. The arts and humanities
have always helped to do that work.
So I urge you to continue in this work. I urge you
to make your progress report to me. I urge you to remember what
we are trying to do in our schools in helping to improve our
children's education with the arts and humanities. I urge you to
work to expand private philanthropy. We all know that the
government in this country provides a crucial measure, but only a
tiny measure of the support that the arts and humanities need.
I urge you to promote international cultural
exchange and understanding, not only because we need desperately
to know more about others throughout the world, but because I
believe that we'll learn a lot more about ourselves if we just come
in contact with people from other walks of life and other paths of
the world.
Thanks to phones, faxes, internet, E-mail, CNN, we
can see the power of our cultural traditions as they are exported
around the world. And sometimes they come back to us. We had the
only -- we're the first White house to communicate with huge
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numbers of people from all over by E-mail. And I'm trying to do
a sociological analysis now of whether there's a difference between
the E-mail communication and the mail communication -- or the
female communication. (Laughter.)
I am very hopeful that you will make a remarkable
contribution to this country. I went over this list of people with
great care. I tried to get a very different group of people. I
tried to imagine all the different things that I hope that this
committee could deal with and all the different challenges I hope
you could assume. If I haven't done a good job, it's not your
fault, it's mine in picking you, but I think you're pretty special.
Let me say in closing that I hope that in addition
to the schools, you can think about how we can increase access to
the arts and humanities all across America for people who might
otherwise be isolated from them -- people who are homebound, people
who live in very isolated areas, people who now don't even know how
to speak the language that would be necessary to ask for something
that might change their lives forever. I ask you also to think of
that.
We've faced a lot of challenges as a country, but
I'm actually pretty optimistic about it based on the objective
evidence. What remains is whether we can develop a vision that
will sustain us as a people as we move through a period of change
without a known big enemy into an uncertain future. It requires
courage, but courage comes from having something inside that you
can connect with what you see outside.
You can help us as we work our way through this in
this remarkable time in our country's history. I hope you enjoy
it. I thank you for serving. And I thank you for being here
today.
Thank you. (Applause.)
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Remarks of Dr. John Brademas
President Emeritus, New York University
The White House
Wednesday, September 21, 1994
Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, at the outset, let me put you both at
ease. I am a child of the United States House of Representatives
and not the Senate and, therefore, I shall be very brief
(laughter).
Mr. President, you do great honor to all of us whom you have asked
to serve as members of the President's Committee on the Arts and
the Humanities, and I am grateful to you for having done me the
honor of asking me to chair the Committee.
You have chosen an extraordinary group of private citizens to serve
on the Committee even as the public members are outstanding leaders
of government, most of whom are friends and former colleagues of
mine.
I am also glad that the able executive director of the President's
Committee is someone who for several years led the Vermont State
Arts Council and was for ten years chief of staff to the
distinguished senior Senator from Vermont, Senator Patrick Leahy--
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell.
Mr. President, that with all the other issues, foreign and
domestic, on your mind, you should have taken time to meet with us
today to charge us with the mission of encouraging greater support,
private and public, of the arts and the humanities in American
life, is a powerful demonstration of the commitment you and the
First Lady bring to our purpose.
And, Mr. President, that you have asked the First Lady to serve as
Honorary Chair of the President's Committee reinforces that
commitment.
You have asked us, Mr. President, to give you a report on the state
of the culture in our country, to consider the implications for the
arts and the humanities of the information infrastructure, to
encourage greater access for the American people to the arts and
the humanities and to look at international cultural exchanges.
So, Mr. President, you have given us a tall order. I am confident,
however, that with this superb group of Americans and the support
of the President of the United States and the First Lady, we will
respond constructively and effectively to your challenge.
Thank you again, Mr. President, for the honor that you do us.
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Opening Statement
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10 a.m., Wednesday, September 21 1994
I want to extend a warm welcome to all of you whom President Clinton has selected to serve on
the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
You are an outstanding group of men and women about to embark on an exciting day and an
important mission.
I am greatly honored that the President asked me to chair this committee, and that he has named
to it such an extraordinary group of people.
With your help and active participation, I'm confident that the President's Committee on the Arts
and the Humanities will fulfill its promise.
Of course, we are all delighted that the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has graciously
agreed to serve as Honorary Chair of the Committee.
The prestige of our Committee and the backing of the White House can, I feel sure, influence
private philanthropy in our country and encourage greater support for the cultural life of the
nation.
As President Clinton said in naming all of you to the Committee, "The Federal, state and local
governments together provide only a small percentage of the support essential to our cultural life.
These appointments underscore the vital partnership between the government and the private
citizens who do so much to enrich and preserve the arts and humanities in our country.
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At a time when our society faces new and profound challenges, when we are losing so many of
our children, and when so many people feel insecure in the face of change, the arts and the
humanities are fundamental to our lives as individuals and as a nation."
Our Committee can create partnerships with other Federal departments and agencies, as we are
already doing with the Department of Commerce, to promote cultural tourism, and with the
Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development--the
last three in order that arts and humanities organizations will have access to the new prevention
programs in the Crime Bill the President has just signed into law.
Please remember that with so many senior members of the government on our Committee, we
also function as an interagency task force on the arts and the humanities. Indeed, I'm very
pleased that so many of the government members of our Committee are with us today and I'm
delighted that Secretary of the Interior Babbitt has asked Roger Kennedy, Director of the Park
Service, to serve; that Secretary of the Treasury Bentsen has asked his Assistant Secretary for
Tax Policy, Leslie Samuels, to join us; and that Secretary of State Christopher has designated my
former colleague in the House, the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, Tim Wirth, to be
a member of the Committee.
Let me say that we are here to assist -- and not to duplicate the mission of the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of
Museum Services.
Now the mission of the President's Committee is to advance public understanding of the arts and
the humanities, and to establish new partnerships between the private sector and Federal agencies
to address critical issues facing cultural life in the United States.
The arts and the humanities and their power to inform and uplift our lives and help the country's
diverse population understand and communicate with one another should be at the center of
everyday life, not at the margins.
In the next two--I believe, six!--years, our Committee has an opportunity to take on some
compelling issues and exciting projects, ones that can contribute both to enriching the nation's
cultural life and society at large.
Working with the White House, we have developed an ambitious agenda for the Committee. We
can succeed with this agenda only if all of you are committed and active.
I think it important here to note that whatever projects we decide to undertake will need to be
privately funded. So as you go through this exciting day, please think about what you can do
to advance our work.
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Today we'll be talking about how the Committee can help reverse the downward trends in private
funding for the arts and the humanities.
This Administration will do everything it can to support cultural life, through the personal
advocacy of the President and the First Lady, through events at the White House. through support
from other departments of the government and by maintaining adequate requests in the Federal
budget.
I think it safe to say, however, that with continuing efforts to reduce the deficit, and in light of
the controversies in Congress, our arts and humanities agencies are not likely to win a big
increase in their budgets.
In my judgement, we should be able to build the groundwork for increasing those budgets.
All of us know that artists and scholars are not valued enough, nurtured enough. All of us know
that many cultural institutions, whether large and established or small and community-based, are
in economic crisis and that that condition affects the access of people to their offerings. Indeed,
the economic situation of the arts and the humanities is in many respects so fragile that the loss
of even a modest government grant or support from a private donor can mean a crisis. So we
must take seriously our mission to stimulate private sector giving.
Private contributions have been especially difficult, outside higher education, to attract to the
humanities. We are exploring with the NEH and the Federation of State Humanities Councils
a challenge grant to help state humanities councils increase their fundraising for annual operating
support.
You will also hear today about the efforts of the government to improve educational standards
and to put the arts back into the classroom. The National Endowment for the Arts and the
Department of Education have forged a partnership to demonstrate how the arts fit into the
National Education Goals approved in the Goals 2000 legislation Congress passed this year, and
to get national standards--voluntary standards--in the arts adopted by every state. We endorse
this effort as a necessary foundation for all other efforts to reach children.
President Clinton will also ask our Committee to pay particular attention to what happens to
young people when they are not in school: to use the power of the arts and, through the
humanities, of ideas, to offer young people creative alternatives to destructive urges To give
them "safe havens"; places to go where there are caring adults and where they can experience
the joy, discipline and positive self-expression that training in the arts and the humanities offers.
You will hear as well about government partnerships, some of which the President's Committee
has already initiated.
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For example, the Committee staff was asked by the Department of Commerce to write one of the
eight new policy papers about the National Information Infrastructure--better known as the
Information Superhighway. Our staff worked together with the NEA, NEH and IMS to produce
a report, "Arts, Humanities, Culture on the NII," which was released by Secretary Ron Brown
on September 7. And there are many significant projects that can come out of that policy review.
I personally hope that our committee will also give attention to how we can encourage more
international exchange among artists and humanists. What we may call "cultural diplomacy"
often precedes economic exchange and improves the political climate in foreign affairs. I believe
that if we imaginatively address cultural diplomacy, we can help this Administration and our
country in other parts of the world.
The Department of Commerce has also encouraged a partnership for cultural tourism, to publicize
cultural events in the United States in markets abroad. The Department is encouraging cultural
organizations to take part in the 50 state conferences on tourism that will lead up to the
November 1995 White House Conference on Tourism. And our Committee is urging the
organizers of the conference to include a session on cultural tourism.
Much of what we do, of course, and what we seek to encourage, can be advanced by an effective
media plan.
There are several ways we can work with radio, television and publications to enhance public
awareness of the arts and the humanities. For example, we've already been working with
National Public Radio to develop a national book club on the air. We'll discuss more ideas later
at our meeting where I hope to draw on the considerable expertise of this Committee.
During the course of the day, our Executive Director, Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, will report to you
about some other activities that she and the staff began by way of developing an agenda for the
next couple of years.
Before we plunge into the agenda, let me say a word about the Committee. The President has
named a Chairman and three Vice-Chairmen--Peggy Cooper-Cafritz, Cynthia Perrin Schneider
and Terry Semel--who comprise a small executive committee. The authority for our Committee
comes, of course, from the President--and our agenda is shaped by his and the First Lady's
mandates, which you will hear this afternoon.
Now I should like to introduce the Executive Director of our Committee. She has, in my view,
a superb background for her important responsibility--nine years as Director of the Vermont State
Arts Council and then ten years as Chief of Staff to the distinguished Senior Senator from
Vermont, Patrick Leahy.
I have myself, in the relatively short time we have been working together, been impressed by her
energy, her intelligence, her judgment and her dedication to the purpose that brings us together
today.
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Now all of you bring tremendous experience to the Committee, and there is always room for new
ideas. By the end of today, I hope to be able to create working groups to deal with the items
on our agenda as well as a working group to develop any ideas that emerge from this meeting.
I will ask each working group to articulate the objectives of the project it recommends; identify
those government, corporate or non-profit partners with which we will work to carry out the
project; and indicate how it will be financed.
We will move ahead on those projects to which the White House has agreed. When new ideas
are developed, I will review them for approval with our Honorary Chair, Hillary Clinton.
We should have a great day together. More important, I believe that working together, we can
accomplish something of significance for the President of the United States and for the people
of our country, for what we do in the arts and the humanities tells who we are as a people. Our
educational and cultural institutions are indispensable to the quality of our lives, the strength of
our communities and the vitality of our democracy. For the arts and the humanities to thrive now
and into the next century, we must have the support of both the government and the private
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Dear Rich:
I want to tell you how grateful we
are for the leadership you are providing
to the Working Group on Arts and
Humanities for Youth - - in school and out
of school. The innovative research agenda
you are proposing that would show the
effect of arts training on other areas of
accomplishment is most promising.
Few things are as important as our
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nation's children. Thank you for your
hard work and leadership.
With best wishes, I am
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I heard about your wonderful speech
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You made all the right points,
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Hon. John Brademas
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New York University
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New York, NY 10036
Dear John:
I just wanted to express how grateful
I am for the leadership you are providing
the President's Committee on the Arts and
Humanities.
Your speech before the Getty
Foundation Conference was inspiring, as
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the national importance of the Endowments.
Thanks, too, for another productive
Committee meeting.
With warm regards, I remain
Sincerely yours,
Hillary Hillary Rodham Clinton
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