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2000
AMERICA'S MILLENNIUM
A CELEBRATION FOR THE NATION
January 3, 2000
To the Best Team a the Millennium! -
The President and I thank all 9 you
for the work each on you did to make the
Millennium celebration such a Ancess. The
team effort demonstrated by every office was
unmatched - and unprecedented, especially
coming, as you know, right after the busy
holiday Deason. We hoped America's
Millennium would be a family celebration
for our nation, and from The audiences
we Daw that certainly was the case. The
feeling 9 goodwill that was in The air
throughout the day and evening - and
into the next morning! - was contagions.
Thanks also to all 9 you who worked
on the Y2K chall enge. What a blessing
that the "bug" barely registered.
And, a special word of thanks to Ellen
Lovere and the White House Millennium Connue -
Hillary Rodham Clinton
2000
WHITE HOUSE
MILLENNIUM COUNCIL
Honor the Past-Imagine the Future
February 9, 1999
Dear Colleague:
Last week Mrs. Clinton launched the White House Millennium Council's newest national
program, entitled "Millennium Communities," at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting. This
program is a partnership of the White House Millennium Council with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and major national intergovernmental associations -- the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the
National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, and the National Association of
Towns and Townships. Together we are inviting local elected officials, private citizens, and
entire communities to plan meaningful activities around the national theme, "Honor the Past --
Imagine the Future."
At the launch, Mrs. Clinton also announced the release of the White House Millennium
Council's Millennium Communities Handbook, a guide to commemorating the millennium for
communities across the nation. The Handbook describes many local projects that can be
replicated in other communities and provides information about our national programs in which
communities and individuals can participate.
I am pleased to provide you with a copy of the Millennium Communities Handbook and will
make additional copies available to any office interested in distributing them. The Handbook
will be sent to local elected officials through the Millennium Communities partnering
organizations, non-profit organizations and individuals and groups that have been in contact with
our office over the past year. If your office is interested in obtaining additional copies of the
Handbook please contact Joe Voeller at 456-2000.
Sincerely,
relen
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
Deputy Assistant to the President and
Advisor to the First Lady on the Millennium
White House Millennium Council
708 Jackson Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20503
Tel: 202-456-2000 Fax: 202-456-2008
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.millennium.whitehouse.gov
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2000
MILLENNIUM
COMMUNITIES
HANDBOOK
WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM COUNCIL
JANUARY 1999
DRAFT
-02/22/99
WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM COUNCIL HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE
"Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life"
(1999-2004)
Program Description:
"Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life" is a 5-year higher education
initiative to support and celebrate the ways in which university artists and humanists do
important civic work by placing arts and humanities faculty members in community settings
where they work closely with citizens on arts projects and inquiries using the disciplines of the
humanities.
Activities under this initiative have been organized into three program areas:
project grants for university-public partnerships;
programs involving the design and planning of places; and,
major artist residencies aimed at making and producing new work about the shared world
of the university and the region.
National conferences, grants and communications components will also be developed.
Partners:
The White House Millennium Council
The National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation
University of Michigan (and a consortium of colleges and universities, chaired by University of
Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger)
Administration of the initiative will housed at the University of Michigan and coordinated
through the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Audience:
Public schools
Local governments
Public institutions (such as libraries and museums)
Cultural organizations
These may include the following participants: undergraduates, K-12 teachers and students,
cultural leaders in communities and regions, and other citizens engaged by public art and public
humanities programs.
DRAFT
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Initial Funding:
Individual colleges and universities: University presidents are being asked to commit
funds to support projects on each of their campuses.
The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation has agreed to administer a competitive
national grant program for partnerships between a university or a college-based artist or
humanist and a co-investigator who will be a teacher, artist, or community leader (for
FY99 - approx. 6 - $5,000 individual awards to go to the co-investigator).
Other sources of funding will be sought to expand the number of projects that can be
funded at a national level.
Imagining America Conference - Washington, DC
Thursday, March 11, 1999
8:00-3:30pm
Room 450, Old Executive Office Building
The purpose of the conference is to enlist the attending institutions in creating their own
"Imagining America" millennium projects. Participants of the conference will include:
University presidents C 75
Federal agencies
Foundations
Individual scholars and artists
Lee Bollinger, President of the University of Michigan, Robert Weisbuch, President of the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, Director of the
White House Millennium Council will co-chair the conference. For more information on the
initiative and conference, the University of Michigan has set up the following webpage:
www.research.umich.edu/research/events/ImaginingAmerica.html
Background:
In 1997-98, The University of Michigan sponsored YoHA -- the Year of Humanities and Arts, a
catalytic endeavor involving several experimental programs. One of the most successful pilot
programs is called "The Arts of Citizenship." This program fulfills one of the fundamental goals
of YoHA: to focus on the relationship between culture and place by bringing the University's
many constituencies, including neighboring communities, into significant contact with one
another. In April 1998, Mrs. Clinton gave a speech at the University of Michigan as the
culminating event of YoHA. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, Director of the White House Millennium
Council, accompanied Mrs. Clinton on the occasion of this speech. Lee C. Bollinger, Nancy E.
Cantor and Robert Weisbuch invited Mrs. McCulloch-Lovell to talk about how the spirit and
goals of the YoHA Arts of Citizenship Program could be expanded into a national higher-
education initiative linked to the White House Millennium Program. The culmination of this
conversation and many that followed is the "Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public
Life" Initiative.
Imagining America
http://www.research.umich.edu/research/events/ImaginingAmerica.h
University of Michigan
Conterences
Imagining America
ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN PUBLIC
LIFE
DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR COMMENT
IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 11
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
SPONSORED BY
THE WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM COUNCIL
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
THE WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP
FOUNDATION
Julie Ellison
University of Michigan
HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS DRAFT PROPOSAL
This is the Imagining America conference website --
http://www.research.umich.edu/research/events/ImaginingAmerica.html.
To respond to the draft proposal posted here, send e-mail comments to
[email protected]. Suggestions will be collected and
displayed on this web page. Or you may fax responses to Julie Ellison at
(734) 763-0085. We hope that the conference will be the occasion for a
public announcement of the Imagining America initiative. Time is short,
so the sooner we receive your comments, the better.
What is Imagining America?
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The goal of Imagining America is to support and celebrate the ways in
which university artists and humanists do important civic work.
University and college teachers across the country are carrying out
research and teaching projects that involve community partners and serve
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communities. Imagining America will explore how to further such work
in the areas of the arts, humanities, and design. Imagining America will
capture the energy of an already intense interest among scholars and
artists in the relationship between creativity and American public life. A
new national initiative will develop useful cultural practices in and for
our communities.
Imagining America is committed to four related endeavors:
changing the way in which universities view themselves and the
way in which these institutions are understood by the public;
encouraging artists and humanists in the academy to become
essential partners in public culture;
supporting collaborative projects conducted by university artists or
humanists and community leaders; and
focusing on the relationship between culture and place to link arts
and humanities disciplines with particular local projects.
A consortium of colleges and universities, chaired by University of
Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger, will be coordinated by Julie Ellison
through the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of
Michigan. We expect that the initial ideas for Imagining America
programs described in this document will evolve as we share them with
others. Each participating college or university will draw on the programs
suggested here in ways that reflect local needs. Annual working
conferences and a busy web site will keep participants connected.
From its founding in March 1999 through 2001, Imagining America will
work in partnership with the White House Millennium Council. We are
looking beyond the millennial moment to five years of programming,
during which we will maintain close links with the successor programs of
the White House Millennium Council's federal initiatives. Imagining
America should last as long as it serves to foster a national community of
university artists and humanists who are working effectively with public
partners.
CONTEXT
Community service learning programs and community-based research are
booming on American campuses but rarely involve artists and humanities
scholars. This is a good time to be addressing the gap between the arts
and humanities as practiced in university and public settings. Key themes
are shared by cultural innovators within and outside of the academy.
These themes include: citizenship, history, memory-especially useful or
applied memory--and the import of public culture and the culture of
place.
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These issues have been at the heart of innovative, often interdisciplinary,
work in universities. They have also been explored--often from a very
different perspective--by people outside higher education, through K-12
classrooms, public libraries, reading groups, museums, and
documentaries.
Faculty scholars and artists and the American public agree that examining
the meaning of culture--and inventing that culture--are important tasks.
But there are misunderstandings and distances between the university and
the public. Collaborations between universities and communities are not
meant to gloss over or tranquilize these differences of viewpoint but to
explore them, literally to make something of them.
WHERE DID IMAGINING AMERICA COME FROM?
Imagining America was sparked by the convergence of three recent
programs. The White House Millennium Council, announced at the
National Archives in August 1997, was created "to celebrate the
accomplishments of America in this century, to recognize and initiate
projects, and to engage every sector of society in conveying our rich
heritage to future generations." Its motto is, "Honor the Past, Imagine the
Future." The White House Millennium Council strongly emphasizes the
role of the arts and humanities in forming the civic culture of democratic
society. The Council sponsors the White House Millennium Lectures and
the White House Millennium Evenings, such as the April 1998 gathering
of three poets-laureate and citizens reading favorite poems, or the January
1999 exploration of "The Meaning of the Millennium" featuring
prominent humanities scholars. The White House Millennium Council,
made up of representatives of many federal agencies, has given rise to a
series of special federal programs. These national undertakings connect
local projects on, for example, literacy, family history, and preservation.
In 1997-98, the University of Michigan sponsored YoHA--the Year of
Humanities and Arts, a catalytic endeavor involving several experimental
programs. One of its most successful pilot programs was called "The Arts
of Citizenship." Now funded for three years under the leadership of
Professor David Scobey, the Arts of Citizenship Program fulfills one of
the fundamental goals of YoHA: to focus on the relationship between
culture and place by bringing the University's many constituencies,
including neighboring communities, into significant contact with one
another. Scholars and artists across the country are exploring connections
between local and global geographies, cultural creation, and the meanings
of civil society. The time was right to invite university faculty to work on
these issues "in public" with community partners, especially K-12
teachers.
The goal of the Arts of Citizenship Program was summed up"in an
important speech by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, given at the
University of Michigan in April 1998 as the culminating event of YoHA.
"Universities," she said, "have a special role to play in making sure we
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are all conscious of the importance of the arts and humanities it is
a
university that provides a safe haven for unconventional ideas and
thoughts, that [is an incubator] of culture. These are the places where we
can test our ideas which is why we do not need to do it in front of a
mirror. We need to do it in a larger community that reflects back to
us new emotions, and new experiences. And by doing so, we are able
to make choices for ourselves as to what sorts of citizens we intend to
be." Ellen McCulloch Lovell accompanied Mrs. Clinton to the University
of Michigan on the occasion of this speech. President Lee C. Bollinger
and Provost Nancy E. Cantor invited Ms. McCulloch Lovell to a meeting
to talk about how the spirit and goals of the YoHA Arts of Citizenship
Program could be expanded into a national higher-education initiative
linked to the White House Millennium Council.
Robert Weisbuch, President of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation in Princeton, attended that meeting. Dr. Weisbuch is a
passionate advocate for the national importance of public-spirited
humanities scholarship and for creative partnerships between university
and college faculty and public school teachers. Woodrow Wilson
administers a rich array of grants and programs, such as the National
School and Community Corps and the Leadership Program for Teachers,
supported by foundations, corporations, federal agencies, and individual
donors. The Foundation is presently expanding its "Teachers as Scholars"
program of college and university residencies for public school teachers.
Bob Weisbuch immediately recognized that the emerging goals of
Imagining America coincided fully with the current directions of
Woodrow Wilson. He is working with Imagining America on a grant
program, including annual meetings of grant recipients. He is the third
founder of Imagining America, along with the White House Millennium
Council and the University of Michigan.
PROPOSED IMAGINING AMERICA PROGRAMS
The consortium will provide leadership, publicity, and support for:
collaborations between faculty and community partners working
with schools, museums, or grass-roots groups on projects that
involve research and creative practice;
arts or humanities publication projects in a variety of forms or
formats aimed at reaching multiple audiences;
explorations of public culture conducted in publicly accessible
ways; and
innovative teaching and curricula that bridge academic study and
community settings.
We anticipate that the Imagining America consortium will set up three
kinds of programs:
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project grants for university-public partnerships;
programs involving the design and planning of places; and
major artist residencies aimed at making and producing new work
about the shared world of the university and the region.
A more extended discussion of what each of these three programs might
look like in practice follows.
1. GRANTS FOR WOODROW WILSON MILLENNIUM
FELLOWS AND ANNUAL MEETINGS PROGRAM
A competitive national grant program, to be administered by Woodrow
Wilson, is our top priority. Such a program will support collaborative
projects by university humanists and artists and community partners. The
goal of each project will be to develop new pedagogy, cultural creations,
and public projects incorporating local knowledge.
The project grants will fund partnerships between a university or
college-based artist or humanist and a co-investigator who will be a
teacher, artist, or community cultural leader in the same city, town, or
region. It will join excellent research or creative activity to the practice of
working in public. The grants will provide an incentive for college and
university teachers to be cultural activists whose work is intertwined with
the public life of their region. The grant recipients will form a national
cohort of cultural activists skilled at negotiating the differences between
academic and public work.
The university teacher will not be positioned as the expert. Nor will the
community person be positioned as the recipient of university expertise.
Rather the campus artist or humanist and the community partner together
will define a project that focuses on the diverse sites, histories, and
cultural practices of the town or region where they live.
Annual summer meetings will serve as working sessions for program
participants, bringing together all project teams. The purpose of the
summer meetings will be to strengthen the national impact of the grant
program by sharing effective project models, building mutual mentoring
relationships, and generating publications. Equal numbers of arts and
humanities projects will be funded, and national geographic distribution
of the grants will be a priority, especially in culturally underserved areas.
A flexible $30,000 award will be given to the co-investigators.
University-based humanists and artists will be required to have full-time
appointments. In order to build the program rapidly, a number of colleges
and universities participating in the March 1999 White House Conference
have committed support for one collaboration between a humanities
scholar or faculty artist at their institution and a community partner at
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their institution. Woodrow Wilson will provide an additional grant of
$5,000 to six of these 1999 awards, designating the recipients as
Woodrow Wilson Millennium Fellows. To the extent that funds can be
raised, institutional commitments will be decreased in subsequent years.
2. DESIGN AND PLANNING AS PUBLIC ARTS
This program will encourage colleges and universities to work with
community partners on design and planning projects. The program's goal
is for universities to become embedded contributors to the places where
they live. The program will help create links between campus planning
and the design and planning of surrounding communities. This effort
might include regular conferences focusing on design and planning issues
facing cities and neighborhoods where universities are located. The
regional and national Institutes for Community Design sponsored by the
US Conference of Mayors might be a useful platform for such
discussions. The Institutes could provide a national infrastructure for
organized attention:
to collaborative university-public design and planning, including
planning for public art;
to support faculty architects, designers, and planners who want to
work with community partners on educational programs that share
design and planning expertise with K-12 students, seniors,
community organizations, and public officials; and
to encourage participation in the "Save America's Treasures"
program of the White House Millennium Council, focusing on
historic campus buildings or on campus sculpture.
3. THE MAJOR ARTISTS PROGRAM
Major artists with close ties to particular colleges or universities would be
selected through a process that involves faculty, staff, students, alumni,
and members of the community. Once the artist is selected, the institution
will spend a substantial amount of time on a broadly collaborative
planning process for that artist's residency. The artist's residency should
reach out to other colleges and universities in the region, to K-12
students, and to community cultural organizations.
Imagining America will pursue funding for a campus/community major
artist residency and commission program aimed at making and producing
new work about the shared world of the university and the region.
This program opens the way for an innovative new alliance between
universities and the network of nonprofit performing arts presenters that
serve academic communities. The Association of Performing Arts
Presenters (APAP) is working with its campus-linked member
organizations around the country to propose tighter connections between
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the performing arts and academic work. Since performing-arts
organizations in university settings already sustain strongly
community-oriented programming, they form an effective link between
the university and the public.
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
The work of Imagining America will formally begin in March of 1999
with a White House conference, Imagining America: Citizens, Scholars,
and Artists at the Millennium. The conference is co-sponsored by the
University of Michigan, the White House Millennium Council, and the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. University of
Michigan President Lee Bollinger will chair this day-long conversation
among members of an ad hoc "brain trust" of leaders in higher education,
government agencies, associations, and foundations, along with major
artists and scholars. Morning and afternoon sessions will explore general
aims and strategies and showcase successful programs.
The conference will feature best practices from university-community
collaborations involving the arts and humanities and will seek consensus
on the goals and directions of Imagining America. Afterwards, we will
name a national advisory board and seek funding from foundations,
corporations, individuals, and, where appropriate, public sources.
THE YEAR 2000 AND BEYOND
The particular ways in which Imagining America marks the turn of the
millennium will differ from campus to campus. Some institutions will
pursue many of the programs described above. Some will undertake only
one. Others will invent new programs inspired by the spirit of the
endeavor. All of the campuses involved will enter into a rich and ongoing
national conversation about how to engage the arts and humanities in
making colleges and universities better civic institutions. We look
forward to additional ideas and contributions from participating
institutions. Our goal is large but attainable: to enrich civil society in the
United States by a set of powerful new alliances between universities and
citizens.
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MILLENNIUM COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
PROGRAM
The Millennium Communities Program is a national, noncompetitive
DESCRIPTION
initiative designed by the White House Millennium Council, in
collaboration with major national intergovernmental organizations and the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, to recognize the commitment of communities
across the country to bring citizens together to celebrate the millennium by
paying tribute to the ideals and creativity that have shaped the past and by
working to ensure an even better future for their children.
Criteria for designation as a Millennium Community include:
Formation of a committee to plan and organize community-
enhancing millennium celebration events and programs
Inclusion in the planning process of people and organizations
which are broadly representative of the community
Consistency of programs and events with the national millennium
theme, "Honor the past -- Imagine the Future"
Application submission and approval through one of the program's
organizational partners
MILLENNIUM
The White House Millennium Council
COMMUNITIES
U.S. Conference of Mayors
PARTNERS
National League of Cities
National Association of Counties
National Association of Towns and Townships
Bureau of Indian Affairs
APPLICATION
Applications can be obtained from any of the Millennium Communities
PROCESS
partners, or from the White House Millennium Communities web site at
<http://www.millenniumcommunities.org> Applications can be filled out
and electronically submitted through this web site.
Any individual or group can be the catalyst for a community application.
Simply design a project in keeping with the criteria above and contact
your local elected official -- your mayor, county commission, selectman or
tribal leader -- to encourage them to apply.
Applications must be signed and endorsed by the chief local elected
official representing the community, and should be sent to the appropriate
partner organization for review. Applications from governors will be
reviewed by the White House Millennium Council.
TIMELINE
Communities will be eligible for the program throughout 1999 and 2000.
RECOGNITION
Cities, towns, counties, states, and tribal reservations which are designated
BENEFITS
Millennium Communities will receive the following:
Certificate signed by the President and First Lady
Registry on the Millennium Communities web site
Use of the national millennium logo and motto:
"Honor the Past -- Imagine the Future"
Invitation to participate in recognition events hosted by the
President and First Lady, as well as visits to designated
communities
WEBSITE
Designated Millennium Communities will be registered on the Millennium
Communities web site at <http://www.millenniumcommunities.org>. The
web site, which is being developed by BellSouth Corporation, a national
corporate sponsor of the program, will profile each community's
millennium projects and events.
HANDBOOK
The Millennium Communities Handbook describes the program in greater
detail and offers sample projects which are consistent with the national
millennium theme. The handbook is available by writing to any of the
Millennium Community Partners, or on the Internet at the Millennium
Communities web site at <http://www.millenniumcommunities.org>
WHITE HOUSE
The Millennium Communities Program is one of several initiatives
MILLENNIUM
developed by the White House Millennium Council. To unite the nation
COUNCIL
as it celebrates the next millennium. Other programs include:
PROGRAM
Save America's Treasures
Millennium Trails
Mars Millennium Project
My History is America's History
Favorite Poem Project
April 19, 1999
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM
TO:
WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM COUNCIL STAFF
FROM:
BENJAMIN J. KIRBY of
JOSEPH VOELLER your
SUBJECT: White House Millennium Council Weekly Report
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to inform White House Millennium Council (WHMC) staff
of 1) WHMC website activity, 2) [email protected] email address activity, and, 3)
provide general correspondence statistics. This memorandum will be provided to staff on a
weekly basis, released by close of business every Monday.
WEBSITE STATISTICS/UPDATE
Following is a list of the number of visitors (hits) to the WHMC web site. The time frame is
from Monday, April 12, 1999 to Sunday, April 18, 1999.
Total number of hits to the WHMC web page:
73,074
NOTE: this number is from the previous
week by 70,050 hits. This is the largest number of
hits on the web page to date. The greatest number
of hits to date is 23,076. The large number can
be attributed to the high profile of the Millennium
Evening, as well as Millennium Communities.
Number of hits on the "When is the
Millennium" page:
1,920
Number of hits on the WHMC Millennium
Evening page:
16,158
Number of hits on the "Millennium Sites" page:
774
Number of hits of the "International Millennium" page:
516
Number of hits on "www.millenniumcommunities.org"
1,164
EMAIL
The general email address for the WHMC is:
[email protected]
For the week beginning Monday, April 12, 1999 through Sunday, April 18, 1999, we received
approximately 10 emails per day on a variety of subjects.
225 questions were received for the 7th Millennium Evening.
CORRESPONDENCE AND OUTREACH
On April 9, 1999, the Millennium Communities team mailed out a suggested op-ed piece, cover
letter and Handbook to 1,000 newspapers around the country encouraging them to write about
the Millennium Communities Program during National Volunteer Week.
1,200 Millennium Communities Handbooks were picked up by the Sister Cities International
program for distribution to their membership cities across the country. 150 Millennium Council
informational packets were sent to New York for distribution at the Millennium Trails event with
Mrs. Clinton.
MISCELLANEOUS
The next Federal Agency meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 20 from 3:00pm to
4:30pm. The meeting will be held in the White House Conference Center's Eisenhower Room.
(726 Jackson Place)
Events and Remarks
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Announcement of the Millennium Council
America's Millennium /ny celebration
Millennium Communities
Millennium Evenings
Millennium Trails
International Millennium Events
Save America's Treasures
Arts Education for the New Millennium
Mars Millennium Project
Millennium Green
Other Millennium Council Events
Announcement of the White House Millennium Council
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Remarks by the First Lady at the White House
Millennium Program Announcement
August 15, 1997
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/announ
cement.html#first_lady
Remarks by the President at the White House Millennium
Program Announcement
August 15, 1997
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/announ
cement.html#president
Excerpts from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's
remarks to the President's Committee on the Arts and
Humanities
February 25, 1997
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/first_re
marks.html
Excerpts from 1997 State of the Union
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/state_re
marks.html
Click here for more information on the
White House Millennium Council
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/what.ht
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America's Millennium - Back to Top
A Millennium Message from the President
December 30, 1999
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-
res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/12/30/2.text.1
America's Millennium Gala
The Lincoln Monument
Washington, D.C.
New Year's Eve 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Remarks by President William Jefferson Clinton
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Dinner for the Millennium Celebration
The White House
New Year's Eve 1999
Remarks by President William Jefferson Clinton
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Millennium Around the World
International Trade Center
Washington, D.C.
December 31, 1999
Remarks by the President and First Lady at
Millennium Around the World
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res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/1/3/5.text.1
Opening Ceremonies of America's Millennium
Celebration
12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Remarks by the President and Mrs. Clinton
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res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/1/3/2.text.1
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Millennium Communities - Back to Top
U.S. Conference of Mayor's Winter Meeting
Capital Hilton Hotel
Washington, D.C.
January 29, 1999
Excerpts from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's
remarks
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Millennium Evenings - Back to Top
The First Millennium Evening at the White House
February 11, 1998
The Living Past - Commitments for the Future
Featuring honored guest Bernard Bailyn, Professor
Emeritus at Harvard University, and winner of the Pulitzer
and Bancroft Prizes for his book Ideological Origins of the
American Revolution. Professor Bailyn discussed the core
American ideas that shaped the nation and those we must
continue to pursue in the next century and the new
millennium.
Remarks by President William Jefferson Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/199802
12-3282.html
Remarks by Professor Emeritus Bailyn
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/bbailyn.
html
The Second Millennium Evening at the White House
March 6, 1998
Information and Change - Science in the Next
Millennium
Featuring honored guest Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian
Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, UK.
Professor Hawking drew on his deep understanding of the
laws of science and their effect on human life and led a
discussion on how scientific and technological
advancements will shape and be shaped by human
knowledge.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/199803
09-22774.html
Remarks by Stephen Hawking
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ng.html
The Third Millennium Evening at the White House
April 22, 1998
The American Voice in Poetry
Featuring present and past Poets Laureate of the United
States: Robert Pinsky, Robert Haas and Rita Dove. The
Poets Laureate recited excerpts of famous poems and spoke
about the evolution of poetry through the century. The
President, Mrs. Clinton and members of the audience read
their favorite poems and participated in the discussion.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
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The Fourth Millennium Evening at the White House
September 18, 1998
"Jazz: An Expression of Democracy"
Featuring renowned jazz musicians, scholars and a
seventeen-piece jazz band. The discussion was led by
Grammy Award-Winning Artist Wynton Marsalis and
celebrated jazz pianist Marian McPartland, who explained
how the development of this unique American art form
reflects the make-up of our democracy. Throughout this
discussion, musical selections by artists such as Diana
Reeves and Billy Taylor, are also included.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/199809
21-8778.html
The Fifth Millennium Evening at the White House
January 25, 1999
The Meaning of the Millennium
Two distinguished scholars, Professor Natalie Zemon Davis
and Professor Martin Marty, examined the meaning of the
millennium from both the historical and religious
perspectives. This discussion offered a better
understanding of how humankind makes meaning of life
through time and how we shape our future by the acts and
commitments we make today.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-
res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/1/27/13.text.1
The Sixth Millennium Evening at the White House
March 16, 1999
Women as Citizen: Vital Voices Through the Century
A discussion on the history of American women in civic
life in the 20th Century, with Professor Nancy Cott,
Professor Alice Kessler-Harris and Dr. Ruth Simmons.
The evening's discussion focused on three themes: women
as volunteers and reformers, women's struggle for rights,
and women in public and civic life.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-
res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/3/22/6.text.1
The Seventh Millennium Evening at the White House
April 12, 1999
The Perils of Indifference: Lessons Learned from a
Violent Century
Featuring Nobel Peace Prizewinner and Boston University
Professor Elie Wiesel, who has used his talents as an author
and teacher to promote action against indifference to human
atrocities and suffering. He led this discussion with
President and Mrs. Clinton to help us understand the need
for every individual to exercise their moral conscience in
the face of injustice.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
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res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/4/13/4tex1.1
The Eighth Millennium Evening at the White House
October, 12, 1999
Informatics Meets Genomics
Featuring Dr. Vinton Cerf, Senior Vice President of
Internet Architecture and Technology at MCI WorldCom,
and Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Whitehead
Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research. Together with
President and Mrs. Clinton, Dr. Cerf and Dr. Lander led a
discussion on the advantages and challenges posed by the
increasingly powerful developments of information
technology and genetic research, and knowledge about our
own natural information system.
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and Honored
Guests
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-
res/I12R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/10/13/9.text.1
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Millennium Evenings at the White House
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on
The Millennium Project and Millennium Evenings
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Millennium Evenings at the White House
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s.html
Millennium Trails - Back to Top
Millennium Trails Announcement at the
Baltimore-Annapolis Trail
Severna Park, Maryland
October 5, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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eralspeeches/1998/19981005.html
Designation of Millennium Trails
International Trails and Greenways Conference
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 26, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, Rodney Slater
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/trails_d
oc.html
Millennium Trails Stop at the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Designation of Millennium Legacy Trails
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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International Millennium Events - Back to Top
Vital Voices Reception
The White House
Washington, D.C.
February 15, 2000
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/2000/20000215.html
Millennium Around the World
International Trade Center
Washington, D.C.
December 31, 1999
Remarks by the President and First Lady at
Millennium Around the World
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res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/1/3/5.text.1
Remarks on Cultural Preservation
Aspendos, Turkey
November 18, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19991118a.html
Vital Voices Conference on Women and Democracy
Reykjavik, Iceland
October 10, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19991010.html
"Culture Counts: A Conference on Financing,
Resources and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable
Development"
Florence, Italy
October 7, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19991007.html
"Globalization into the Next Millennium"
The Sorbonne
Paris, France
June 17, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19990617.html
Millennium Lecture Series at the University of Ireland
"Our Obligations to Each Other: Continuing the Quest
for Peace"
Galway, Ireland
May 12, 1999
Lecture by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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eralspeeches/1999/19990512.html
Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies Reception
The White House
Washington, D.C.
April 30, 1999
Remarks by the President and Mrs. Clinton
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eralspeeches/1999/19990430.html
"Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga" Exhibit
Announcement
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Washington, D.C.
April 8, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19990408.html
Vital Voices of the Americas: Women in Democracy
Montevideo, Uruguay
October 2, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19981002.html
Vital Voices Conference
Belfast, Northern Ireland
September 2, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980908.html
Friends of Art and Preservation in the Embassies
The White House
Washington, D.C.
June 18, 1997
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1997/fape.html
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"Save America's Treasures" - Back to Top
National First Ladies Library
Canton, Ohio
July 23, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19990723.html
Highlighting the Charters of Freedom Project
National Archives
Washington, D.C.
July 1, 1999
Remarks by President and Mrs. Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19990701.html
Palace of the Governors
Santa Fe, New Mexico
May 21, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19990521.html
Cornerstones Community Partnerships Reception
Santa Fe, New Mexico
May 20, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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eralspeeches/1999/19990520.html
African Meeting House
Boston, Massachusetts
December 5, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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eralspeeches/1998/19981205b.html
Longfellow House
Boston, Massachusetts
December 5, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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eralspeeches/1998/19981205.html
150th Anniversary of the First Women's Rights
Convention
Seneca Falls, New York
July 16, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980804-3206.html
M'Clintock House, Women's Rights National
Historic Park
Waterloo, New York
July 15, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980728-3482.html
Ganondagan State Historic Site
Victor, New York
July 15, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980728-3646.html
Harriet Tubman Home
Auburn, New York
July 15, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980729-6380.html
Kate Mullany Home
Troy, New York
July 15, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980730-10086.html
The Mount (Home of Edith Wharton)
Lenox, Massachusetts
July 14, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980728-2868.html
Colonial Theatre
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
July 14, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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eralspeeches/1998/19980728-3014.html
East End Historic District and
George Washington's Headquarters
Newburgh, New York
July 14, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980714.html
Thomas Edison National Historic Site/
Inventions Factory
West Orange, New Jersey
July 14, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980714a.html
Star Spangled Banner
Natural Museum of American History
The Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
July 13, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980713.html
Announcement of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation's 1998 List of "America's Eleven Most
Endangered Historic Places"
Monocacy Aqueduct
C&O Canal National Park, Maryland
June 15, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/19980706-16334.html
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Treasures
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sures/index4.html
Arts Education for the New Millennium -- Back to Top
VH-1 Concert of the Century
The White House
Washington, D.C.
October 23, 1999
Remarks by the President and First Lady at the Concert of
the Century for VH-1 Save the Music
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eralspeeches/1999/19991023.html
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on the
Power of Arts in Education
The White House
Washington, D.C.
September 17, 1998
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1998/
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Mars Millennium Project - Back to top
Mars Millennium Project Kick-off
National Air and Space Museum
Washington, D.C.
January 14, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19990114.html
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The Mars Millennium Project
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Millennium Green - Back to Top
Upcoming Millennium Green Events:
April13 - 22, 2000 - Ag-Earth Day Celebration
http://www.millenniumgreen.usda.gov/events/view_event.a
sp?ID=17
April 22, 2000 - Earth Day 2000
http://www.millenniumgreen.usda.gov/events/view_event.a
sp?ID=17
April 29, 2000 - Arbor Day
Past Millennium Green Events:
Official Launch of Millennium Green and the
Dedication of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Tree by The
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and
the White House Millennium Council
USDA Headquarters
Washington D.C.
December 15, 1999.
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at
Millennium Green Launching
http://www.millenniumgreen.usda.gov/hillary_speech.htm
Remarks by Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman
http://www.millenniumgreen.usda.gov/remarks.txt
View it on RealVideo: COMING SOON!
View the program from the Official Launch of Millennium
Green and the Dedication of the Hillary Rodham Clinton
Tree - (PDF File)
http://www.millenniumgreen.usda.gov/program2.pdf
Fact Sheet on Millennium Green
http://www.millenniumgreen.usda.gov/fact_sheet.htm
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www.green.gov
Other Millennium Council Events - Back to top
White House Conference on Philanthropy
The White House
Washington, D.C.
October 22, 1999
Remarks by the President, Mrs. Clinton and
Honored Guests
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19991022a.html
Visit the White House Philanthropy Conference Website
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/Philan/
html/index.html
National Trust for Historic Preservation's
50th Anniversary Celebration
The National Building Museum
Washington, D.C.
October 21, 1999
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1999/19991021.html
Remarks on the Coming Millennium
The National Archives
Washington, D.C.
August 15, 1997
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/gen
eralspeeches/1997/mil2000.html