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Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
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[Kennedy Center Honors, 12/4/91]
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THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
12/5/91
WASHINGTON
December 4, 1991
01 DEC 4 P6: 01
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
TONY SNOW T5
OK
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN 9PD
SUBJECT:
KENNEDY CENTER HONORS
I. SUMMARY
On Sunday, December 8, at 5:30 p.m., you will give
brief remarks in the East Room about the winners of this
year's Kennedy Center Honors. About 300 will attend.
II. DISCUSSION
The remarks (5 minutes, on cards) laud the seven
winners and praise the Kennedy Center.
Note that the first two paragraphs and the final
paragraph will become a video insert into the program later
that evening at the Kennedy Center. The taped program will
be broadcast at a later date on network television.
(Duggan/Simon)
December 4, 1991
Draft Two
KenCen
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KENNEDY CENTER HONORS
THE EAST ROOM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1991
5:30 P.M.
Barbara and I are delighted to take part in celebrating the
achievement of seven outstanding Americans who have devoted their
lives to the performing arts. Their work represents the carnival
of creative diversity that makes America a nation like no other.
They richly deserve their selection for the Kennedy Center
Honors.
The Kennedy Center is truly our national center for
performing arts. It plays a vital role in educating and
nurturing young artists, helping ensure we will have exceptional
performers and writers and composers to honor in decades to come.
Barbara and I take great pleasure in attending performances of
theater and music and dance at the center every season of the
year.
And now, let me recognize the honorees for 1991:
Roy Acuff, from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, is a
minister's son. As a songwriter and singer he has that biblical
genius for speaking straight to the heart. A prodigious
publisher and impresario, he has created a following for
America's country music in our cities and towns -- and even in
places overseas. Like the Wabash Cannon Ball, Roy Acuff's music
"glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore."
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We honor this mighty man for giving us music that not only is
popular but is timeless.
Betty Comden and Adolph Green helped bring the American
musical to full flower in the 1930s -- and their work is still
flourishing in the 1990s, on Broadway and in Hollywood. In Peter
Pan, their writing lifted Mary Martin to lyric heights no wires
or pulleys could ever reach. In Singin' in the Rain, On the
Town, Applause -- and dozens more productions -- they put song
and dance and love and laughter together in a combination
unmistakeably American.
For the creative melding of American dance forms, and for
sheer acrobatic virtuosity on the stage, there has never been a
pronoure
match for the Nicholas Brothers. Fayard Nicholas and his brother
Harold have captivated audiences around the globe with their
combinations of tap dance, jazz ballet and acrobatics. From the
stage of the fabled Cotton Club to the great song-and-dance
spectaculars of the silver screen, the Nicholas Brothers have
dazzled generations of Americans with the excitement and grace of
their performances.
During four decades as a film actor, Gregory Peck has
embodied strength and dignity in his portrayals. For moviegoers,
Gregory Peck represents the faith of Father Chisholm, the
humanity and courage of General Frank Savage, and the
incorruptible devotion to justice of Atticus Finch. Off the
screen, Gregory Peck has devoted his talent to leadership of the
American Film Institute and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
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and Sciences. He wins our laurels today not only as an actor's
actor, but also as a leader in his profession.
Robert Shaw has led the United States to unprecedented
distinction in choral music. Robert Shaw is also a minister's
son, and from the very beginning of his career he has harmonized
the gift of song with his study of philosophy, theology and
literature. Leading by example, he demands excellence from his
students and his professional musicians and singers. He has
given our nation a treasure of great performances, from the
classical and sacred traditions as well as from the modern period
and our own American folk idiom.
I speak for a grateful nation in honoring these artists. To
Roy Acuff; to Betty Comden and Adolph Green; to Fayard Nicholas
and Harold Nicholas; to Gregory Peck; and to Robert Shaw: Thank
you for the wonders you have worked with your great talents.
May God bless each of you, and God bless the United States
of America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 27, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR ROSE ZAMARIA
FROM:
HELEN MOBLEY
REQUEST FOR KENNEDY CENTER
SUBJ:
TICKETS
I "Bye Bye Birdie". The dates that I would prefer advance are
would like to request four tickets to the President's Box
to January see 3, 4, 10, 11, 18, 24 or 25. Thank you in
for your consideration of this request.