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08/11/1999
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001b. memo
Melanne Verveer to the President re: National Humanities Medal
08/11/1999
b(6)
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001c. list
re: non-selection (10 pages)
ca. 1999
b(6)
002. memo
re: non-selection (2 pages)
08/11/1999
b(6)
003. memo
Melanne Verveer to the President re: National Medal of Arts [partial]
08/11/1999
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COLLECTION:
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First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 20361
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Arts [2]
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August 11, 1999
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
MELANNE VERVEER
RE:
NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDALS
The National Council on the Humanities has made its recommendations for the 1999
National Humanities Medals.
Included in this binder are the first and second priority lists of recommendations
generated by the Council. The names are listed alphabetically and biographies follow. As you
know, the Council strongly recommends the artists and patrons noted on the first priority list.
Substitutions can be made by the President from the nominees on the second list. Please note
that
(b)(6)
[00la] [00 la]
In 1989, the National Endowment for the Humanities instituted the Charles Frankel Prize
to honor a select number of people for contributions to the humanities. In 1997, the name was
changed to the National Humanities Awards. The selection process, as with the Arts Medals,
begins with a solicitation for nominations from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The
National Council on the Humanities reviews the nominations and makes recommendations to the
President. The President selects the final recipients. The Awards are given to individuals or
groups whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened
citizens' engagement with the humanities or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to
important humanities resources. You are free to choose up to 12 selections; however, because the
list is so long when combined with the NEA list, you should feel free to select fewer.
Also included in this binder, for your information, is a list of previous National
Humanities Medal recipients. The 1999 Medals will be awarded at a White House ceremony on
September 29.
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COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 20361
FOLDER TITLE:
Arts [2]
2013-0534-S
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concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
August 11, 1999
PRESIDENTIAL ACTION MEMORANDUM
FROM:
MELANNE VERVEER
Please choose recipients for the 1999 National Humanities Medal from the following first
and second priority lists of nominees generated by the National Council on the Humanities.
Biographies of each nominee follow under specified tabs.
FIRST PRIORITY NOMINEES
TAB # Nominee
Field
APPROVE
[0016 J
(b)(6)
2
Patricia Battin
Library
3
Taylor Branch
History
(b)(6)
5
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
History
6
Garrison Keillor
Humor
7
Jim Lehrer
TV Journalism/Literature
8
John Rawls
Philosophy
(b)(6)
10
Steven Spielberg
Film
11
August Wilson
Literature
(b)(6)
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P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
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and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
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2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
PREVIOUS NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL RECIPIENTS
1998
Stephen Ambrose
E.L. Doctorow
Diana Eck
Nancy Gaj
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Vartan Gregorian
Ramon Eduardo Ruiz
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Garry Wills
1997
Nina Archabal
David A. Berry
Richard J. Franke
William Friday
Don Henley
Maxine Hong Kingston
Luis Leal
Martin Marty
Paul Mellon
Studs Terkel
PREVIOUS FRANKEL PRIZE RECIPIENTS
1996
Rita Dove
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Daniel Kemmis
Arturo Madrid
Bill Moyers
1995
William R. Ferris
Charles Kuralt
David Macaulay
David McCullough
Bernice Johnson Reagon
1994
Ernest L. Boyer
William Kittredge
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Dorothy Porter Wesley
1993
Ricardo Algria
John Hope Franklin
Hanna Gray
Andrew Heiskell
Laurel Ulrich
1992
Allan Bloom
Shelby Foote
Richard Rodriquez
Harold K. Skramstad
Eudora Welty
1991
Winton Blount
Ken Burns
Louise Cowan
Karl Haas
John Tchen
1990
Mortimer J. Adler
Henry Hampton
Bernard M.W. Knox
David Van Tassel
Etyle R. Wolfe
1989
Patricia L. Bates
Daniel J. Boorstin
Willard L. Boyd
Clay S. Jenkinson
Americo Paredes
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Melanne Verveer
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Arts [2]
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concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
August 11, 1999
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
MELANNE VERVEER
RE:
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS
The National Council of the Arts has made its recommendations for the 1999 National
Medals of Arts.
Included in this binder are the first and second priority lists of recommendations
generated by the Council. The names are listed alphabetically and biographies follow. The
Council strongly recommends the artists and patrons noted on the first priority list. However, as
you know, substitutions can be made by the President from the nominees on the second list. In
fact, you can also add a different choice, should that be your preference.
The national Medal of Arts is the highest award that the President can bestow on our
nation's artists and art patrons. The Medal was established by the National Foundations on the
Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. It was created to award "individuals or groups who are
deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence,
growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States" (NFAH Act of 1965). The Act
empowers the President to choose the recipients of the Medals on the basis of the
recommendations made by the National Council on the Arts. No more than twelve Medals may
be awarded per year. However, you may want to select fewer because the group has gotten very
large in the last year with the expansion of the NEH list.
Also, please note in the pocket of this binder a bio on Victor Borge. For several years,
Sen. Dodd has been vigorously urging Borge's selection. You will also see an article regarding
the activities on another NEA nominee. You had asked that Norman Lear be resubmitted this
year. He's on the 2ⁿᵈ list. Finally, Rep. Nadler called to strongly endorse the Julliard School's
nomination.
Included in this binder, for your information, is a list of previous National Medal of Arts
recipients. The 1999 Medals will be awarded at a White House ceremony on September 29.
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Melanne Verveer to the President re: National Medal of Arts [partial]
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COLLECTION:
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First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 20361
FOLDER TITLE:
Arts [2]
2013-0534-S
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August 11, 1999
PRESIDENTIAL ACTION MEMORANDUM
FROM:
MELANNE VERVEER
Please choose a total of twelve recipients for the 1999 National Medal of the Arts from
the following first and second priority lists of nominees generated by the National Council on the
Arts. Biographies of each nominee follow under specified tabs.
FIRST PRIORITY NOMINEES
TAB # Nominee
Field
Age
Residence
Birthplace
APPROVE
1
Maria Tallchief
Dance
74
IL
OK
(b)(6)
[003]
3
Lydia Mendoza
Folk/
83
TX
TX
Traditional Arts
4
Robert McCloskey
Literature
84
ME
OH
5
Paul Newman
Media
74
CT
OH
6
Aretha Franklin
Music
57
MI
TN
(b)(6)
8
Ellen Stewart
Theater
79
NY
IL
9
George Segal
Visual Arts
74
NJ
NY
(b)(6)
11
The Julliard School Arts Organization
NY
12
Winton M.
Patron
78
AL
AL
"Red" Blount
SECOND PRIORITY NOMINEES
TAB # Nominee
Field
Age Residence Birthplace APPROVE
(b)(6)
2
Michael Graves
Design
64
NJ
IN
3
Odetta Gordon
Folk/
68
NY
AL
Traditional Art
4
William Maxwell
Literature
91
NY
NE
5
Norman Lear
Media
77
CA
CT
6
Kronos Quartet
Music
CA
7
Rosetta LeNoire
Opera/
87
NY
NY
Musical Theater
(b)(6)
(b)(6)
10
Harvey Lichtenstein Administrator
70
NY
NY
11
Old Town
Arts Organization
IL
School Of Folk Music
12
Irene Diamond
Patron
89
NY
PA
Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief is acknowledged to be the first American-
born prima ballerina. Daughter of a Scotch-Irish mother and
full-blooded Osage Indian father, she was born in Oklahoma.
She and her sister Marjorie studied ballet and after they
showed early promise the family moved to Los Angeles
where they were students of Bronislava Nijinska.
She was just 17 when she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte
Carlo. And in 1948, when George Balanchine formed the
New York City Ballet, she became its prima ballerina. She
was Balanchine's inspiration and his wife, dancing with the
company for 18 years. He created the title role in "Firebird"
and the role of the "Sugar Plum Fairy" in the Nutcracker for
her, both of which secured her place in the history of ballet.
In 1953 President Eisenhower honored her as the "Woman
of the Year," and she holds doctorates from 10 colleges and
universities. In 1996 she was honored at the Kennedy
Center as one of the outstanding artists of the century.
Her biography, "Maria Tallchief-America's Prima Ballerina"
was published in 1997, chronicling her remarkable life and
career from growing up on the Osage Indian reservation to
her acclaimed performances throughout the world. She
makes her home in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park
with her husband Henry "Buzz" Pascheo. They are the
parents of one grown daughter, Elise Pascheo, who is a
poet.
Maria Tallchief continues her artistic contributions as a
member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Women's Board
and is the Opera Company's director of ballet.
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b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
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lydia Mendoza
Lydia Mendoza has left a major mark on Mexican-American music over a career that
spans most of the twentieth century. She was the first woman performer of Mexican-
American vernacular music to emerge as a "star" from the early years of commercial
music recording in the 1930s. She was the first rural American woman performer to
garner an enormous following throughout Latin America. Herself the embodiment of
grassroots Mexican border culture, she earned the sobriquets "La Cancionera de los
Pobres" (The Poor People's Singer) and "La Alondra de la Frontera" (The Lark of the
Border). No other Latino folk performer surpasses her in significance; when the National
Heritage Fellowships were launched in 1982, she was among the first year's honorees.
She is the subject of the 1993 Arte Público Press publication Lydia Mendoza: A Family
Autobiography and an upcoming biography to be published by the Oxford University
Press.
Career Highlights:
1927-8
Performs professionally with her family group "El Cuarteto Carta
Blanca" in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
1928
Makes ten records in San Antonio for the Okeh label.
1928-30
Family group performs for fellow farmworkers in Pontiac and
Detroit, Michigan.
1930-34
Cuarteto Carta Blanca returns to Texas; Lydia Mendoza begins
career as solo artist, performing daily in the Plaza del Zacate open-
air market in San Antonio.
1934-40
Makes nearly 200 recordings for the Bluebird label and tours
extensively in Hispanic Southwest. At her second session, records
the internationally-successfiul song "Mal Hombre" that became her
signature song over the rest of her career and that established her
long-lived reputation in Latin American and the Southwest.
1947-77
After a slow period during WWII, resumes touring in both U.S.
and Mexico, and records for Falcón, Ideal, Victor, and Columbia
labels.
1971-present
Appears at festivals and concerts outside Mexican and Mexican-
American orbits, including the Smithsonian Bicentennial Festival
of American Folklife and the Jimmy Carter Presidential
inauguration.
1982
Principal representative profile of Mexican-American recording in
the Library of Congress publication Ethnic Recordings in America:
A Neglected Heritage.
1982
Among first recipients of NEA National Heritage Fellowship.
1999
Receives National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies
Lifetime Achievement Community Award.
Robert mccloskey
FOR ALL NOMINATIONS
On this single page, summarize key professional credits, accomplishments or
highlights. For Patron/Patron Organizations, outline artistic projects supported. Use
one-inch margins and a readable type size (12 point is recommended).
Robert McCloskey
Author
Robert McCloskey (born 1914, Hamilton Ohio) is a writer and illustrator of children's books, and the only individual ever to receive
the Caldecott Medal for Literature twice. His work has also been recognized with the Prix de Rome, Catholic Library Association's
Regina Medal for "continued distinguished contributions to children's literature," and honorary doctorates from Miami University,
Mount Holyoke College and the University of Maine. Five of his publications have been selected as notable books by the American
Library Association.
In 1934. as a high school senior in Hamilton, Ohio, McCloskey was asked by an architect to create over 20 bas reliefs in stone for the
municipal building of his hometown. Eventually the children's section of Hamilton's Lane Public Library was named for him.
He began to draw and paint things he remembered of his boyhood from which came his first book, Lentil, published in 1940.
He is highly regarded as an author and illustrator of children's books who blended interests in music, engineering and art to create an
original style that is distinctly "American" in flavor. His characters have been compared to those of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
The unforgettable duck family in McCloskey's Caldecott Medal-winning Make Way for Ducklings has also warmed the hearts of
several generations of readers, and inspired larger-than-life-size bronze replicas of the mother duck and her ducklings, which have stood
since the late 1980s in the Boston Public Garden, the setting for McCloskey's tale.
Alice Fannin, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, sums up McCloskey's reputation this way: "A first-rate illustrator, in his
books McCloskey provides art that is an added attraction--always well done and sometimes exquisite." Speaking of his humor, Helen
W. Painter, in Elementary English, writes "this quality, plus the ability to portray facets of ordinary but real living which are familiar
to all of us, creates a kind of magnet that draws us together Perhaps seldom has an individual in his representation of reality verging
on the comic made greater use of his own background and personal characteristics in his work than has Robert McCloskey."
Writings - Self-Illustrated:
Lentil, Viking, 1940
Make Way for Ducklings, Viking, 1941
Homer Price, Viking, 1943
Blueberries for Sal, Viking, 1948
Centerburg Tales, Viking, 1951
One Morning in Maine, Viking, 1952
Time of Wonder, Viking, 1952
Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man: A Tale of the Sea in the Classic Tradition, Viking, 1963
Ilustrations:
Anne Burnett Malcomson, Yankee Doodle's Cousins, Houghton, 1941
Robert Hobart, Tree Toad, Stokes, 1942
Claire Huchet Bishop, The Man Who Lost His Head, Viking, 1942
Tom Robinson, Trigger John's Son, Viking, 1949
Ruth Sawyer, Journey Cake, Ho!, Viking, 1949
Anne H. White, Junket, Viking, 1955
Keith Robertson, Henry Reed, Inc., Viking, 1958
Keith Robertson, Henry Reed's Journey, Viking, 1963
Keith Robertson, Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service, Viking, 1966
Keith Robertson, Henry Reed's Big Show, Viking, 1970
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Paul Newman
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Paul Newman has been appearing on the screen and stage for
over forty-six years. Originally a sporting goods store manager,
he attended Yale University and made his movie debut in 1954's
The Silver Chalice. Since that time, he has appeared in fifty-nine
movies in the capacity of actor, director, or actor/director.
In 1968, along with fellow actors Sidney Poitier, Barbra
Streisand, and Steve McQueen, he formed First Artists Production
Company. This resulted in directing his wife Joanne Woodward in
Rachel, Rachel among other directorial triumphs. The esteem in
which Paul Newman is held is, perhaps, best revealed by noting that
he has received seven Academy Award nominations as an actor and one
as a producer.
Mr. and Mrs. Newman's contributions to the American cultural
landscape are not, however limited to films and movies. Through
profits derived from sales of popcorn, salad dressings, and sauces,
Paul Newman funds the Sundance Foundation that benefits numerous
children's programs including a camp for terminally ill youths.
Today, Paul Newman continues to act and indulge in his other
passion, namely automobile racing. Newman's racing successes
include a National SCCA Championship clinched at Road Atlanta and
second place in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1995, at the age
of seventy, Paul Newman became the oldest driver ever to win a
professionally sanctioned auto race when he co-drove to a class
victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona.
Notable artistic endeavors of this artist include:
1958 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Academy Award Nomination)
1958 The Long Hot Summer
1959 The Young Philadelphians
1961 The Hustler
(Academy Award Nomination)
1963 Hud
(Academy Award Nomination)
1966 Torn Curtain
1967 Cool Hand Luke
(Academy Award Nomination)
1968 Rachel, Rachel
(Academy Award Nomination)
1969 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
1973 The Sting
1976 The Drowning Pool
1981 Absence of Malice
(Academy Award Nomination)
1982 The Verdict
(Academy Award Nomination)
1986 The Color of Money
1989 Blaze
1994 Nobody's Fool
(Academy Award Nomination)
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Aretha Franklin
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When Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, made her debut with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra in three concerts at Orchestra Hall in November of 1998, she thrilled
hometown sell-out crowds each night, bringing down the house with her hits "Respect"
and 'Freeway of Love", as well as arias from Turandot and Tosca! Greg Sandow for the
Wall Street Journal said, "This was an Occasion with a capital O written in flames
against the Michigan sky. Detroit's Mayor Dennis Archer was there, along with
Michigan Rep. John Conyers and a host of civic dignitaries the sheer health of her
voice, life surging through it with enough power to make her almost a monument, [was]
the equivalent of a great forest or the Grand Canyon."
In her distinguished career, Ms. Franklin has earned seventeen Grammy Awards
(including the 1991 Legend Award and the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award), was the
first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and became the first African-
American woman to grace the cover of Time Magazine. She is the youngest American
ever to receive the coveted Kennedy Center honor for achievement in the performing
arts. Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Detroit. The
daughter of the renowned minister, the Reverend C.I. Franklin, Aretha was featured as
a soloist on his many nationwide tours and at the New Bethel Baptist Church. After an
initial brief recording period with Columbia Records in the early 1960's, Ms. Franklin
became a worldwide sensation with her first recording at Atlantic Records, "Respect", a
tune written by Otis Redding, but destined to become Ms. Franklin's signature song.
Aretha's golden decade-plus of hits for Atlantic Records followed (1967-1979)
establishing her as one of the most successful recording artists of all time. In 1980, she
began her association with Arista Records which has resulted in nine albums and thirty
hit single recordings including "Freeway of Love" and "Who's Zoomin' Who".
Other career highlights have included a much acclaimed role in the 1980 movie "The
Blues Brothers" and a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II. In 1993,
she performed her spellbinding version of "I Dreamed A Dream" from the hit Broadway
musical "Les Miserables" at the first inauguration of President William Clinton. Aretha
Franklin's voice has been designated a natural resource of the State of Michigan.
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Even Stewart
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Ellen Stewart is the Founder and Director of La MaMa E.T.C., the New York City theater
that began in October 1961 with the vision of nurturing and encouraging the creative endeavors
of new generations of artists. To this day, La MaMa remains true to this founding vision; and
has presented more than 1,800 productions. Its resident theater troupe has performed throughout
the world, including Africa, Columbia, Venezuela, Lebanon, Iran, Belgium, Holland, Denmark,
Finland, Scotland, England, Sweden, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Croatia, Korea, Turkey,
Yugoslavia, and Macedonia.
New Eastern European Theater was introduced in America in 1967, when Ellen Stewart
helped bring Jerzy Grotowski, Ryszard Cieslak, and Ludwig Flaszen to America. Ms. Stewart
was instrumental in introducing to America some of the world's most influential artists, including
Andrei Serban, Thaddeus Kantor, and Peter Brook, and is proud of La MaMa's long heritage as
an international theater, having hosted artists from more than seventy different countries.
As a result of being a laboratory for artists, dancers writers, musicians, actors and
directors to gather, investigate and create, La MaMa has given birth to some of the most exciting
artists of contemporary American theatre, from Bette Midler and Robert DeNiro to Blue Man
Group, not to mention a host of playwrights, directors, musicians, composers, and designers.
Ellen Stewart herself has staged composed, directed and written librettos for original
folk-opera/spectacles presented around the world; has lectured and led countless workshops at
universities, symposiums, conferences, and international festivals; and is a visiting professor of
the Institute of Drama in South Korea and is a long-standing member of the Seoul International
Theater Institute.
Ellen Stewart is the recipient of numerous Honorary Doctorates and awards, including
the MacArthur "Genius" Award and the National Endowment for Arts and Culture. She was
appointed an "Officer" in the "Odre Des Arts Et Letters" of the Republic of France, and recently
received the Les Kurbas Award for "Distinguished Services to Art and Culture" from the
Ukraine. In January 1993 Ellen Stewart was inducted into the "Broadway Theater Hall of
Fame," becoming the first Off-Broadway Artist ever to receive this honor. In December 1994
Ellen Stewart was awarded the "Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette" by the
Emperor of Japan.
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AWARDS & HONORS:
1970
Doctor of Fine Arts
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
1985
Visual Arts Award
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
1986
The Mayer Sulzberger Award
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1987
Hall of Fame/Rutgers Achievement Award
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
The Governor's Walt Whitman Creative Arts Award
State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
1988
Alumni Achievement Award
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
National Arts Club Artist Award, New York, NY
1991
Distinguished Alumnus Award
New York University, New York, NY
Order of Andres Bello, First Class
The Republic of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
1992
Doctor of Fine Arts
State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
International Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture
International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC
New Jersey Pride Award
Outstanding Contribution to the State of New Jersey
1994
Doctor of Fine Arts
Massachusetts College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997
Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo, Japan
Lifetime Achievement in the Arts
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The Julliara School
Established in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art, The Juilliard School was originally conceived as
an American Conservatory of Music to rival those in Europe. As it evolved over the years, the
School quickly became a leader and innovator in the field of arts education. While always
maintaining technical standards of the highest order in the training of gifted students, the School
remained sensitive to changing conditions in the arts world. The development of an innovative
approach to music education in the Literature and Materials of Music, introduced by Juilliard in
1947; the creation of the Dance Division in 1951 and the Drama Division in 1968; and the pioneering
integration of the humanities into the development of the artist through the creation of an inter-
divisional Liberal Arts Program in 1985 are some examples of how the Juilliard experience has been
reshaped periodically to create new opportunities or to meet new circumstances in the arts.
In recent years, Juilliard has emphasized a wide range of educational outreach programs as a way of
instilling a sense of activism and arts advocacy in its students. The Community Service Fellowship
Program, created in 1989, sends Juilliard students to perform in local hospitals, nursing homes,
hospices and alternative care facilities. Additional outreach programs include the Edward John
Noble Concert Fellows Program, established in 1995, which provides opportunities for public school
classes of third through fifth graders to experience concerts at Juilliard; the Morse Fellowship
Program, established in 1994, which prepares and enables graduate music students with a talent and
passion for teaching to share their musical understanding with New York City public school students;
and the Music Advancement Program, begun in 1991, a highly personalized program that provides
the opportunity for traditionally under-represented students, drawn from the New York City public
school system, to explore the beauty, discipline and joy of classical music through intensive Saturday
instruction with faculty composed of Juilliard alumni, advanced students and other accomplished
professionals who make a special effort to develop one-on-one relationships with their students.
The School's Drama Division has likewise engaged in educational outreach programs since the early
1970s, bringing live theater to school children in the form of abridged versions of plays by
Shakespeare and other distinguished playwrights performed by third-year students in the actor-
training program. Since 1996, full-length, fully produced versions of Shakespeare's plays have been
presented to high school students bussed to Juilliard. The performances, the post-performance
discussions between visitors and cast, and a tour of other Lincoln Center facilities have been
enthusiastically received by visiting students and their teachers.
Juilliard's contribution to the arts in America is perhaps best measured by the accomplishments of its
alumni, including recent National Medal of Arts winners James Levine; Dorothy DeLay, an alumna
and a member of the School's violin faculty since 1948; and Paul Taylor, an alumnus of the School's
Dance Division. Leontyne Price, likewise a Juilliard alumna, was among the first group of National
Medal honorees in 1985. William Schuman, who was awarded the medal in 1987, served as the
School's president from 1945 to 1962. The range of alumni also includes multi-talented, award-
winning stage and screen actors, such as Christine Baranski, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Audra
McDonald, Christopher Reeve, Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams. Distinguished alumni of the
School are world-renowned composers, conductors, singers, actors, dancers, directors,
choreographers, musicians, and teachers. They are working artists who carry with them the highest
standards of their profession in a wide variety of venues and in all parts of the world. Juilliard alumni
are a truly national resource, represented in all fifty states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of
Columbia. They tour with dance companies; they act in repertory theaters, on television and in film;
they perform with symphonies; they sing with opera companies; they create new works, and they
breathe new life into works from the standard repertory.
Rather than rest on its laurels or merely attempt to maintain the status quo, Juilliard is currently
undertaking an initiative to strengthen its curriculum by enhancing opportunities for students'
intellectual and personal development, and by increasing the emphasis on the creation and realization
of new works throughout the Juilliard experience.
The Juilliard School is a national treasure for the performing arts, graduating the most talented artists
who are destined to become leaders in their fields. The School's long history of contributions to the
performing arts should, I believe, be recognized by awarding Juilliard a 1999 National Medal of Arts.
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Winton M. Blount
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1995
Receives the Leadership Award from the national Business Committee for the Arts, Inc., New
York, for his exemplary contributions to the arts in the United States.
1995
Presents The Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at The John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, emphasizing the importance of federal government
support to the arts.
1993
Receives Citizen of the Year Award, Beaver Creek, Colorado.
1993
Pledges a $1 million matching gift to the Endowment Fund of the Alabama Shakespeare
Festival to establish a chair in honor of former Managing Director, E. Timothy Langan.
1993
Receives the Rhodes College Distinguished Service Award.
1993
Pledges $500,000 to the Folger Shakespeare Library Renaissance Fund campaign.
1992
Receives the National Governor's Association Distinguished Service Arts Award.
1991
Awarded the Charles Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
1991
Testifies before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on behalf of the National
Endowment for the Arts.
1991
Receives the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Governing Boards of
Universities and Colleges.
1990
Receives an Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College for exemplary service to the arts.
1989
Appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Board of Governors.
1989
Receives the Alabama Humanities Award.
1988
Receives the Frank Plummer Memorial Arts Award from the Montgomery Business
Committee for the Arts.
1988
Named Montgomery Citizen of the Year.
1987
Blount, Inc. receives a Business in the Arts Award from the Montgomery Business Committee
for the Arts for its outstanding support of the arts.
1986
Receives the Award for Excellence in Corporate Collecting from the Association of Corporate
Art Curators.
1986
Blount, Inc. receives a Business in the Arts Award from the national Business Committee for
the Arts, Inc. for its outstanding support of the arts.
1986
Establishes a $50,000 maintenance endowment fund for the John Quincy Adams Ward statue
of William Shakespeare in Central Park, New York.
1986
Appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
1985
Blount, Inc. receives a Business in the Arts Award from the national Business Committee for
the Arts, Inc. for its outstanding support of the arts.
1985
Donates 35 acres of land, 41 works of art from The Blount Collection and made a $500,000
grant construction grant from The Blount Foundation to the Montgomery Museum of Fine
Arts.
1984
Proclamation from the Governor of Alabama for Distinguished Service to the State.
1984
Blount, Inc. receives a Business in the Arts Award from the national Business Committee for
the Arts, Inc. for its outstanding support of the arts.
1982
Blount, Inc. receives a Business in the Arts Award from the Montgomery Business Committee
for the Arts for its outstanding support of the arts.
1982
Makes the largest single contribution ever - more than $22 million - in the history of the
American theater to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
1981
The Vatican Art Collection travels to the U.S. for the first time due to Mr. Blount's work with
Friends of American Art in Religion. He was awarded a Papal Medal from Pope John Paul II
for his efforts.
1980
Co-founded the Montgomery Business Committee for the Arts, the first Affiliate of the national
Business Committee for the Arts, Inc.
1979
Blount, Inc. receives a Business in the Arts Award from the national Business Committee for
the Arts, Inc. for its outstanding support of the arts.
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Michael Graves
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The architect Michael Graves, FAIA, is nominated for the 1999 National Medal of Arts, because,
for over thirty-five years, he has been regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential
designers and educators America has ever produced.
Those around Graves recognized early on that he was remarkable. His architecture school career,
at the University of Cincinnati, and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, was
exceptional. As a young man, in the early 60s, he won the Rome Prize in Architecture from the
American Academy in Rome, which led to a formative period of study and travel in Italy. In
1962, he joined the faculty at Princeton where he still teaches as the Schirmer Professor of
Architecture. He established his architectural office in 1964, and in 1970, won the first of the 14
design awards that would be conferred on him by Progressive Architecture magazine. By then, his
drawings had become legendary and sought-after - the faraway, square buildings, faint in the
landscape, with their symmetrical openings, surrounding small trees, and vast areas of space --
eerily, airily rendered -- on yellow tracing paper -- were transforming of the way one saw.
Graves's idiom at first was that of abstract modernism, and, in the late 60s and 70s, it took on
the unique design vocabulary for which he has been known ever since. This vocabulary, and the
vision it expresses, make his buildings instantly recognizable. Graves's underlying formalism and
problem-solving intelligence work in myriad architectural situations, and also gives exceptional
quality to the industrial designs he has produced, especially in recent years, not only for Alessi,
one of the great European designers, but also for Steuben, Lenox, Disney, and, most recently, for
Target, the American manufacturer of everyday objects who wish their customers to be
empowered "to unlock the potential of their living environments."
Michael Graves has been a leader in the design profession throughout his long career. He is
admired by his peers, adored by his students, and relied upon, and returned to, by his clients. He
is a designer through and through, and his accomplishments exceed those of anyone else working
today. No one can match him for versatility and artistic giftedness. Over the last 25 years, he has
received 9 National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects and more than 50
design awards from the New Jersey Society of Architects; he has been the subject of countless
publications; he has been involved with many of the major design commissions of this quarter of
the century; he holds 9 honorary doctorates; in 1991, he was inducted into the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. He has long been a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome.
If designers are the artists most crucial to the comfort and quality of most people's lives, because
it is they who invent and shape every article involved in day-to-day living -- from the spoon to the
city -- and if we Americans are considered slow to realize the design opportunities awaiting us in
the shaping of the public realm, Michael Graves has understood and elevated the experience for
all -- whether it be the aesthete or the common man. There could be no better example of his
inventiveness than in the new scaffolding on the Washington Monument that both provides
access to the workman, and also allows for inspection by the viewer.
This is why, more than any designer working today, he should be awarded the National Medal of
Arts. He has had a tremendous impact on the public realm, and on all whom he has taught. He
elevates the profile and the accomplishments of designers; he illuminates the design process and
inspires those who might follow in his footsteps; he improves the quality of much that is made
and imagined; he is good for design and for art. No one is more deserving; no one would bring
more lustre to the honor.
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"ODETTA" GORDON
Odetta is an imposing figure on the stage, with her flamboyant caftans or dashikis, matching head scarves,
bold earrings and gold forehead charm, incense burning at the end of her guitar, her body moving,
dancing talking with and caressing her audience with her music.
"I'm an interpreter of folk music, which encompasses more than folk songs handed down from the
generations. It includes work songs, game songs, children's songs, gospel and blues songs from people
who had to entertain themselves outside of their daily work, and songs for people and their emouonal
needs," states Odetta, describing her unique style of song.
A longtime resident of New York City, Odetta was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on New Year's Eve
1930. Her first love was classical music, even while growing up with her stepfather who listened to "The
Grand Old Opry" on the radio every Saturday night. She studied voice privately with the idea of singing
oratory, as she felt being black she didn't have a chance to get into an opera company. When she was 19,
while touring in the chorus of "Finian's Rainbow" in San Francisco, she attended a party where there was
folk singing and guitar playing, and she suddenly realized that there "was some fantastic stuff labeled folk
music." A friend gave her a guitar she wasn't using, taught her some chords and launched Odetta on a
lifelong career.
Odetta describes American folk music as "unique" because it is derived from a combination of different
peoples. "It could never have begun in just Africa or England or Scotland, because everyone came here
from somewhere else with their own music. American folk became a blend of all people's music." The
bulk of Odetta's repertoire originates from the Archives of Folk Music at the Library of Congress, for
which she herself has done recordings.
Odetta's multi-faceted voice and other talents, are evidenced by the versatility of her performances. She
has sung in concerts throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia, China and Israel on innumerable tours;
performed in festivals, clubs, universities and colleges throughout the United States, as well as in prisons
wherever and whenever she is needed; sung in oratories; accompanied ballet companies and solo dancers;
done concerts with symphony orchestras; acted in "The Crucible" and starred in The Effects of Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," both produced in Canada.
At the prime of her life at age 68, she aspires to do more acting in the future, is currently is working on a
series of albums based on repertoire from the 20's, 30's and 40's, and would like to compose more of her
own writings. Her favorite audiences are college kids. "They're TV babies and rock concert devotees. I
feel that their listening muscles need development." Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, among other singers,
have stated that Odetta's performances and records inspired them to get into folk.
Odetta is a recipient of the Duke Ellington Fellowship award at Yale University, where she has
participated in many concerts at the "University without Walls". She has received an Honorary Doctorate
from Bennett College, acknowledging her as not only a musician, but a music historian. She is a Grammy
Award winner in the category of Ethnic/Folk. She has appeared in numerous PBS-TV specials, guest
starring with the Boston Pops, Peter, Paul & Mary, the Boys Choir of Harlem, Richie Havens, Pete
Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, among others. In 1993-94 she toured with Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba
on a "3 Divas Concert Tour" in Italy. In 1993 she received the "Key to the City of Birmingham" while
there for a CBS-TV "Sunday Morning" special, where she did a Benefit Concert at the Black Hall of
Fame. In 1999 she is celebrating her 50th Anniversary Year in Show Business.
Compiled of excerpts from writings by Mildred Levinstone, and Douglas A. Yeager.
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William Maxwell
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William Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois in 1908. He was educated at
the University of Illinois and at Harvard University.
He was fiction editor of the New Yorker Magazine from 1936 to 1976, editing
and encouraging important work by a number of the mid-century's finest
writers, including the great Irish writer Frank O'Connor. His own published
fiction represents a body of the most lucid, lovely, penetrating prose in
American letters. His books of fiction, memoir and essays include Bright
Center of Heaven (1934), They Came Like Swallows (1937), The Folded Leaf
(1945), Time Will Darken It (1948), Stories [with Jean Stafford, John Cheever,
and Daniel Fuchs] (1956), The Chateau (1961), The Old Man at the Railroad
Crossing and Other Tales (1966), Ancestors (1971), Over by the River and
Other Stories (1977), So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980), The Outermost
Dream (1989), Billie Dyer and Other Stories (1992), All the Days and Nights
(1994). His books for children include Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun and His Home
Away from Home (1995) and The Heavenly Tenants (1946).
I think this list makes clear that, at the very least, no can beat him for titles
(Time Will Darken It ? If I ever once thought of a title so beautiful I'd die
happy).
He has received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal, the American Book
Award, and, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Howells
Medal and the Gold Medal for Fiction, the PEN/Malumud Award, The
Chicago Tribune Heartland Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's
Ivan Sandroff Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters.
I can think of no living person who, both in imaginative and editorial
capacities, has made such a brilliant, genuine, long-running contribution to
American fiction. There is no writer more deserving of his nation's
appreciation and honor.
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EDUCATION: Emerson College.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: One of the great inno-
Norman Lear
vators of TV comedy, this liberal-minded
writer and producer reshaped the TV sitcom
from escapist fare into a thinking person's
entertainment. Lear's use of touchy material
was handled with finesse. Gaining experi-
ence as Co-Writer, "Ford Star Revue" and
"The Colgate Comedy Hour," Lear entered
into long-range partnership with Bud Yorkin.
Together they produced "The Andy Williams
Show" and specials with Fred Astaire, Carol
Channing and other stars before repeating
their success on the big screen with Divorce
American Style, Cold Turkey, and The Night They
who's Who In Television Q Cable
Raided Minsky's. Reconquering TV, Lear built
up a TV comedy empire beginning with the
ed. Steven H. Scheuer
smash hit "All in the Family," followed by
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1983, Scheuer& ASSOC.
"Good Times," "The Jeffersons," and
"Maude," which consolidated the Lear trade-
mark of controversial comedy grounded in
beloved characterizations. "One Day at a
Time" and "Diff" rent Strokes" were equally
as popular, if not as adventurous. Not con-
tent with primetime supremacy, Lear ex-
plored syndicated territory with "Mary Hart-
man, Mary Hartman," which was revolu-
tionary in terms of plot lines, format, and
late-night time slot. Lear has continued to be
one of TV's free thinkers with the feminist
comedy "All That Glitters," the audience-
response gimmick of "The Baxters," and his
People for the American Way, which is his
personal campaign against censorship in any
medium. After an absence from series TV,
Lear returned (late '83) with "Good Evening,
He Lied," a spoof of local TV news for NBC.
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS: Three Emmy
awards; the Writers Guild Valentine Davies
award, the IRTS gold medal, and the Peabody
award.
PERSONAL: Married to Frances Lear, a leading
figure in civil liberties issues and women's
rights.
LEAR, NORMAN
Writer/Prod./Dir., Embassy Communications
c/o Embassy Communications, 1901 Ave. of
the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067
b. July 27, 1922. New Haven, CT.
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Kronos Quartet
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KRONOS QUARTET
Kronos Quartet demonstrates a fierce commitment to its artistic mission: to present and
promote contemporary music and expand the string quartet repertoire. Kronos believes that by
commissioning and performing new music, collaborating with artists of differing aesthetic and
cultural points of view, and redefining musical elements which can constitute a string quartet
piece, the string quartet can be an exciting and limitless medium for 21st century artistic
expression.
Kronos has assembled a body of work unparalleled in its range and scope of expression
and, in the process, has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. In addition to working
closely with modern masters, Kronos commissions new works from today's most innovative
composers from around the world, performing in more than 100 concerts in an average of 15
countries and 15 domestic states annually. Since its founding in 1973, Kronos has focused on
the creation of a repertoire by commissioning and premiering 400 new string quartets from
composers spanning six continents and at least four generations (more than twice the number
composed by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms combined). With 30 recordings
in circulation, and more than 3,000 appearances at music festivals and some of the world's great
concert halls, Kronos continues to introduce new music and new composers to an international
audience numbering in the millions. In 1998, Kronos celebrated its 25th anniversary with special
concerts and programs 11 cities in 7 countries; produced an unprecedented home season series of
four sold out programs; issued 3 new recordings including a commemorative 10-CD boxed set;
completed four concert films broadcast throughout Russia, France, Germany, and in the United
States; videotaped 2 PBS feature programs; appeared in feature stories in 31 major U.S.
publications; inaugurated a new web site; and received many awards and honors in including:
two Grammy Award nominations (Best Classic Album and Best Chamber Music Performance);
an Edison Prize nomination (Netherlands) for Best Chamber Music Recording; an
ASCAP/Chamber Music America Special Award, "Champions of Music of Our Time, 25 Years
of Adventuresome Programming, 1973-1998"; a Deutscher Schallplattenpries (Germany); a New
York Bessie Award (for River composed by Somei Satoh and performed with Eiko and Koma); a
San Francisco Chronicle Reader's Choice Second Place Award for Best Classical Music Group
(after the San Francisco Symphony); and a nomination for a National Public Radio New Horizon
Award for Significant Contributions to Classical Music in America.
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Rosetta LeNoire
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Ms LeNoire was born in Hells Kitchen, New York City. She was taught musical theatre
skills by her godfather, the great Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, as a way to strengthen her
legs from the ravages of rickets. She studied music with the legendary Eubie Blake, who
later worked at her theatre as a teacher. Miss LeNoire made her Broadway debut in Mike
Todd's first all-black production of The Hot Mikado. In 1936, she appeared as the First
Witch in the famed WPA/Orson Wells production of Macbeth. Among her many Broadway
credits are: A Streetcar named Desire; The Sunshine Boys; You Can't Take it with You;
Lost in the Stars; Destry Rides Again; Anna Lucasta; and The Royal Family. On film,
Rosetta appeared in The Sunshine Boys; The Brother from Another Planet; Anna Lucasta;
and Moscow on the Hudson, among others. She is best known to current audiences for
her television roles as Mother Winslow in Family Matters and Gimme a Break as Nell
Carter's mother.
In 1968, in response to the racism she perceived among young people, she founded
AMAS ("you love" in Latin) Musical Theatre, dedicated to racial and ethnic harmony
through the arts. AMAS' success through Ms. LeNoire is evidenced by the eighty shows
she has produced, including Bubbling Brown Sugar, that had a two-year run on Broadway
and received a Tony award nomination for Best Musical; Mama, / Want To Sing, and
Capital Cakewalk, nominated for 1990 Best Musical by the NewYork Outer Critics Circle.
Recently AMAS produced the Rollin" On The T.O.B.A., a hit show currently running Off-
Broadway. AMAS has won an overwhelming 58 Adelco Awards.
Perhaps more importantly, Rosetta created a school, The Rosetta LeNoire Musical
Theatre Academy (formerly the Eubie Blake YouthTheatre), where inner-city, at-risk youth
learn musical theatre skills. Rosie says, "Theatre is a marvelous way to bring people of all
races, colors and creeds together. You don't worry about what color anyone is: all you
care about is the end product." Although she has taught the likes of future dance stars
as Maurice and Gregory Hines, she is just as proud of students who go on to other
careers.
Rosetta LeNoire pioneered the concept of non-traditional, colorblind casting. Actors'
Equity Association acknowledges Ms. LeNoire contribution to the American theatre with
the Rosetta LeNoire Award, given each year to producers and theatre companies who live
up to Rosetta's standard. Past recipients include Joseph Papp, Broadway producer Phillip
Rose, and Crossroads Theater Company.
Ms. LeNoire is the recipient of many awards, including the New York City Mayor's Award
of Honor, the Mary McCleod Bethune Award from the National Council of Negro Women,
the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mayor Giuliani
named April 19, 1996 Rosetta LeNoire Day in New York City, and Cardinal O'Connor
presented her with the Pierre Toussaint Medal.
Rosetta has been a role model for the generations of African-American performers who
followed in her footsteps. Ms. LeNoire's tireless efforts at bringing people together
through the arts; her humanitarianism demonstrated to people of all races, creeds, colors
and religions, make her an ideal candidate for the National Medal of Honor. To quote
Rosetta once again, "We are all flowers in God's Garden here on Earth. He made us
many colors to complement His beautiful bouquet, but all the stems are green."
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Harvey Lichtenstein
President and Executive Producer
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Harvey Lichtenstein was born in Brooklyn in 1929 and attended Brooklyn Technical High
School a few blocks from BAM. After receiving his BA in English and History from Brooklyn
College, he was awarded a scholarship to study dance at Black Mountain College during the
summer of 1952 and then at Bennington College in 1952-53. He danced professionally through
1957.
His arts administration career began at the New York City Ballet in 1964, where he worked for a
year as an intern on a Ford Foundation fellowship. He was hired by the ballet and while there,
created their subscription campaign-an uncommon practice for dance companies at the time.
He also worked for the New York City Opera. By the time Mr. Lichtenstein returned to his
native Brooklyn in 1967, BAM, America's first performing arts center, had already seen more
than a century of theatrical activity.
Lichtenstein quickly set a new course for BAM by focusing on the work of challenging artists
who were not being supported elsewhere in the city. Early activity included the New York
premiere of Alban Berg's Lulu performed by Sarah Caldwell's American National Opera
Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company's first major New York season and the
celebrated return of The Living Theater in 1968 after five years of exile. Twyla Tharp, Jerzy
Grotowski and Robert Wilson were also presented by BAM in the late 1960s. The 1970s were
marked by Peter Brook's landmark production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the introduction
of the minimalist composer Steve Reich, several visits by the Royal Shakespeare Company and
the residency of The Chelsea Theater Company for ten years. From 1971 to 1973 while still head
of BAM, Mr. Lichtenstein also served as American Director of Italy's Spoleto Festival.
One of Mr. Lichtenstein's greatest achievements was the establishment of the Next Wave
Festival in 1983, now universally recognized as one of the largest and most influential exposition
of the contemporary performing arts in the world. Next Wave has produced or presented works
by many of the leading performing artists of the last two decades. The revival of Philip Glass'
and Robert Wilson's extraordinary Einstein on the Beach in 1984 (and again in 1992), the
creation of the BAM Majestic Theater for Peter Brook's nine-hour Indian epic The Mahabharata
in 1987, the presentation of Ariane Mnouchkine's four-play cycle of Euripides and Aeschylus
Les Atrides in 1992, and the introduction to America of Bartabas and his French equestrian
troupe Zingaro's Chimère in 1996 are among the productions that have kept BAM and the Next
Wave at the cutting edge throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Under his leadership, BAM has
provided a firm footing for hybrid theater involving multiple disciplines,
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Old Town School of Folk Music
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The Old Town School of Folk Music was founded in 1957 and is the oldest and largest institution
of its kind in this country. The School has compiled a record of achievement that is unique in the
folk and traditional arts. The organization's accomplishments include:
Providing classes and concerts throughout its 42-year history to the people of Illinois.
Providing public school outreach since the early 1970s to tens of thousands of students.
The introduction of its Wiggle Wormsᵀ program for children six months to three years in 1985,
years before the boom in early childhood education became popular. The School currently teaches
over 1,400 children each week and in 1999 opened the Children's Music and Performing Arts
Center in its old 12,000 square foot building that was vacated when adult programming moved to its
new, 43,000 square foot space. (see below)
The School was chosen as the Beatrice Foundation's Award of Excellence recipient in 1987 as
Chicago's best managed not-for-profit organization.
The School collaborated with the Chicago. Symphony Orchestra in the tate 1980s as a presenting
partner in bringing folk and world music artists to Orchestra Hall.
The organization successfully implemented an audience diversity initiative that has seen minority
attendance increase from less that 2% in 1992 to over 23% today.
The School was ranked the top presenting organization in Illinois 4 out of the last 6 years (1990-
1996) that the Illinois Arts Council reviewed grant applications by panels of peers.
In 1994 the Old Town School was chosen by the City of Chicago to receive the donation of a
43,000 square foot building that was formerly used as a public library. The City also donated land
for a parking lot, and $2.2 million in support of renovation. The School raised $9.1 million that
was used to create the Chicago Folk Center, the new headquarters of the Old Town School of Folk
Music that is the largest and best equipped facility in the country for the teaching, presentation, and
preservation of our folk heritage.
In 1997 the School presented a Tribute to Steve Goodman, the late folk singer and songwriter
who was a student at the School. Jackson Brown, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Kathy
Mattea, and Arlo Guthrie all performed for no fee and $485,000 was raised towards the recently
completed capital campaign.
Attendance in classes has increased by 1,000% since 1984, from 375 students a week to over
4,400 who are currently enrolled. The budget of the School has grown from $240,000 in 1982 to
$4 million projected for 1999.
Executive Director Jim Hirsch was named Chicagoan of the Year by Chicago Magazine in 1998
for his work on the development and completion of the School's new headquarters.
The National Endowment for the Arts, which has awarded three major challenge grants to the
School since 1985, recently favorably reviewed an application and some of the comments made by
the panelists were very gratifying. One panelist called the School, " a vital institution." Another
noted, " the largest, oldest, and most stable organization in their field."
Beyond the quality of the artists and the programs presented, the School is one of the few cultural
institutions that is relevant and attractive to diverse populations. Today, when you walk through the
doors what you find is a unique community of music lovers of all ages, abilities, and ethnic
backgrounds. Children are introduced to Spanish and French through our bilingual Wiggle Worms
TM classes. African drumming students mix with blues enthusiasts. Young professionals
experience Mexican Folkloric dance. Banjo players and students of Andean pipes mingle in the
lobby.
The Old Town School of Folk Music is a model of the successful arts organization for the new
millennium culturally diverse, financially sound, relevant to the present, and respectful of the past.
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Irene Diamond
IRENE DIAMOND
Irene Diamond was born and educated in Pittsburgh. Her early career was as a stor
editor in the film industry in New York and Hollywood. She quickly became a
senior story editor in that industry, a position held by few women in the 1930's and
40's. Irene Diamond purchased practically all of the scripts for Bette Davis's movies,
recognizing the potential of the properties which became such memorable movies as
Now Voyager, Jezebel, The Rose Tattoo, The Rainmaker, and Casablanca. She
broadened her career to become one of the early Hollywood talent scouts, and, in
addition to purchasing screen rights to The Rose Tattoo, she brought to Hollywood
the great Italian actress Anna Magnani. Burt Lancaster and Robert Redford are just
two of the actors who went on to have remarkably successful careers after she sent
them to Hollywood.
A successful New York realtor, Aaron Diamond died in 1984. Shortly before his
death, he and his wife Irene decided to set a ten-year lifespan for the foundation he
had established. They also decided to divide the foundation's grants in New York
City among three major concerns: 40 percent to medical research, 40 percent to
minority education and 20 percent to culture. Irene Diamond was President of the
Aaron Diamond Foundation, which from 1987 to 1996 gave more than $220 million
to more than 700 New York City organizations.
The foundation has supported Young Concert Artists, The Dance Theater of Harlem,
a minority training program at the Juilliard School and created the Diamond Project
at the New York City Ballet to encourage young choreographers. Furthermore, the
foundation created and sustained the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center for the
City of New York. Mrs. Diamond insisted on the hiring of a young, relatively
unknown researcher to run the center, Dr. David Ho. Named TIME Magazine's Man
of the Year in 1996, Dr. Ho's work led to the discovery of protease inhibitors-the
most dramatic and effective treatment for AIDS yet developed. Irene Diamond's
philanthropy made possible one of the most important breakthroughs in medical
research since the Salk vaccine for polio.
In recognition of the Foundation's significant achievements, Irene Diamond has
received numerous honors. She is a Board Member of the Aaron Diamond AIDS
Research Center for the City of New York, Young Concert Artists, The Film Society
of Lincoln Center, and Human Rights Watch. Although the Aaron Diamond
Foundation closed its doors at the end of 1996, Mrs. Diamond remains an active
philanthropist as president of the Irene Diamond Fund. She focuses the foundation's
grantmaking on medical research, including the Diamond AIDS Lab, and the
performing arts.
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PREVIOUS NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS:
1998
Jacques d'Amboise
Dancer, Choreographer, Educator
Antoine "Fats" Domino
Rock 'n' Roll Pianist, Singer
Ramblin'Jack Elliott
Folk Singer, Songwriter
Frank Gehry
Architect
Barbara Handman
Arts Advocate
Agnes Martin
Visual Artist
Gregory Peck
Actor, Producer
Roberta Peters
Opera Singer
Philip Roth
Writer
Sara Lee Corporation
Corporate Arts Patron
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Arts Organization
Gwen Verdon
Actress, Dancer
1997
Louise Bourgeois
Sculptor, Visual Artist
Betty Carter
Jazz Vocalist
Agnes Gund
Arts Patron
Daniel Urban Kiley
Landscape Architect
Angela Lansbury
Actor
James Levine
Music Director, Pianist
Tito Puente
Percussionist/Musician
Jason Robards
Actor
Edward Villella
Ballet Director/Dancer
Doc Watson
Bluegrass Guitarist/Vocalist
MacDowell Colony
Artist Colony/Organization
1996
Edward Albee
Playwright
Sarah Caldwell
Opera Conductor
Harry Callahan
Photographer
Zelda Fichandler
Theater Director, Founder
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero
Composer, Musician
Lionel Hampton
Musician, Bandleader
Bella Lewitzky
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
Vera List
Arts Patron
Robert Redford
Actor, Director, Producer
Maurice Sendak
Author, Illustrator, Designer
Stephen Sondheim
Composer, Lyricist
Boys Choir of Harlem
Choral Arts, Education
1995
Licia Albanese
Opera Singer
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poet
B. Gerald and Iris Cantor
Patrons
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Actors
David Diamond
Composer
James Ingo Freed
Architect
Bob Hope
Entertainer
Roy Lichtenstein
Painter/Sculptor
Arthur Mitchell
Dancer/Choreographer
William S. Monroe
Bluegrass Musician
Urban Gateways
Arts Education
1994
Harry Belafonte
Actor/Singer
Dave Brubeck
Musician/Composer
Celia Cruz
Contralto
Dorothy DeLa
Teacher
Julie Harris
Actor
Erick Hawkins
Choreographer
Gene Kelly
Dancer/Choreographer/Actor
Pete Seeger
Folklorist
Catherine Filene Shouse
Arts Patron
Wayne Thiebaud
Painter
Richard Wilbur
Poet
Young Audiences
Arts Education
1993
Walter and Leonore Annenberg
Arts Patrons
Cabell "Cab" Calloway
Singer/Bandleader
Ray Charles
Singer/Musician
Bess Lomax Hawes
Folklorist
Stanley Kunitz
Poet/Editor/Educator
Robert Merrill
Baritone
Arthur Miller
Playwright
Robert Rauschenberg
Artist
Lloyd Richards
Theatrical Director
William Styron
Author
Paul Taylor
Dancer/Choreographer
Billy Wilder
Movie Director/Writer/Producer
1992
Marilyn Horne
Opera Singer
Allan Houser
Sculptor
James Earl Jones
Actor
Minnie Pearl
Performer
Robert Saudek
Television Producer/Museum Director
Earl Scruggs
Banjo Player
Robert Shaw
Conductor/Choral Director
Billy Taylor
Jazz Musician/Pianist
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Architects
Robert Wise
Film Director
AT&T
Corporate Arts Patron
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
Corporate Arts Patron
1991
Maurice Abravanel
Music Director/Conductor
Roy Acuff
Country Singer/Bandleader
Pietro Belluschi
Architect
J. Carter Brown
Museum Director
Charles "Honi" Coles
Tap Dancer
John O. Crosby
Opera Director/Conductor/Administrator
Richard Diebenkorn
Painter
R. Philip Hanes, Jr.
Arts Patron
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Actress/Singer/Administrator/Dancer
Pearl Primus
Choreographer/Anthropologist
Isaac Stern
Violinist
Texaco Inc.
Corporate Arts Patron
1990
George Francis Abbott
Actor/Playwright/Producer/Director
Hume Cronyn
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Merce Cunningham
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Jasper Johns
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Jacob Lawrence
Painter
Riley "B.B." King
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Southwestern Bell Corporation
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1989
Leopold Adler
Preservationist/Civic Leader
Katherine Dunham
Dancer/Choreographer
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photographer
Martin Friedman
Museum Director
Leigh Gerdine
Art Patron/Civic Leader
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie
Jazz Trumpeter
Walker Kirtland Hancock
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Vladimir Horowitz (posthumous award)
Pianist
Czelaw Milosz
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Robert Motherwell
Painter
John Updike
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Dayton Hudson Corporation
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Helen Hayes
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Gordon Parks
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Jerome Robbins
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Rudolf Serkin
Pianist
Virgil Thomson
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Sydney J. Freedberg
Art Historian/Curator
Roger L. Stevens
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(Mrs. Vincent) Brooke Astor
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Eva Le Gallienne
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Nomination for National Medal of the Arts for Victor Borge
Classical Planist, Conductor, Entertainer
Victor Borge has had a long, remarkable and highly distinguished career as a classical
musician and brilliant comedic entertainer. For more than 70 years, Mr. Borge has uniquely
entertained audiences with his graceful piano playing of classical music combined with
scintillating monologues, self effacing satire, and joyful physical comedy. Mr. Borge's piano
playing has been described as warm, lyrical, and highly nuanced. reflecting the golden age of
piano playing, while his exquisitely honed comedic skills have been compared to those of
Charlie Chaplin. In addition to being a great classical pianist and entertainer, Mr. Borge has
served as guest conductor with hundreds of orchestras including the prominent New York
Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony and
the London Philharmonic. By blending serious classical music with delightful, entertaining
humor and great personal charm in a unique format, Mr. Borge has introduced classical music to
millions of people of all ages. One of the most recognized and beloved entertainers in the world
today, at the age of 90, Mr. Borge continues to provide music and mirth to his audiences. As
recently as March 12 of this year, he performed to rave reviews at Boston's Symphony Hall.
While his lifetime of professional accomplishments would, by itself, qualify Mr. Borge for the
great honor of a National Medal of the Arts, his additional achievements include his work as a
humanitarian and philanthropist devoted to the preservation of the arts, and as an international
ambassador of music and goodwill for his adopted country, the United States.
Victor Borge has been a naturalized American citizen for over 50 years, but he was born
Borge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen, Denmark. in 1909. Mr. Borge was the youngest son of two
musical parents and he was a musical prodigy. He began reading music at age four, performed
his first piano recital at age eight, studied at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory at age 10,
performed Rachmaninoff's "Second Concerto" at age fourteen, and received a scholarship to
study at the Vienna Music Conservatory at age sixteen. During the 1930s, Mr. Borge became
one of Denmark's most popular and admired artists. His classical piano playing brought him
huge acclaim, as did his skillful blend of humor. As World War П approached, Mr. Borge began
to courageously incorporate satirical references to Hitler and Nazism into his act. In 1940. when
the German army occupied Denmark, Victor Borge was forced to leave his birthplace to avoid
arrest and imprisonment and he and his wife came to the United States.
During the 1940s, Mr. Borge quickly learned a new language and began performing to
new and appreciative audiences. In 1941, after the first of 56 successive performances on the
Bing Crosby "Kraft Music Hall," he was pronounced "comedy find of the year" by the American
press, and throughout the years his radio and television programs have been highly successful.
But Mr. Borge's real love has been performing before live audiences. His one-man Broadway
show was an unprecedented triumph, running almost three years from 1953 to 1956, and is still
listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-running one-man show in theatrical
history. During the last four decades, Mr. Borge has had many roles, including that of classical
pianist, conductor, author, and philanthropist, and he has received numerous honors such as those
from the United States Congress and the United Nations. As we approach the new millennium,
it seems especially fitting that Victor Borge be honored with the National Medal of the Ars. At
90 years of age, he has lived through the 20th century with artistic excellence, grace, humor,
courage, and an enduring commitment to the highest artistic standards as a citizen of the United
States of America.
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W
ASHINGTON With calls to "pillory Hillary," conservative
and Republican organizations are mobilizing to raise millions
of dollars all over the country in an effort to crush Hillary Rodham
Clinton's all-but-certain Senate candidacy in New York.
Mrs. Clinton has long been an object of scorn for large numbers of
conservative groups, all the more so since she attributed the
investigation of the Monica Lewinsky scandal to a "vast right-wing
conspiracy."
Now her expected bid for public office has inspired fierce opposition
and a flow of checks from conservatives in far-flung places like
Alabama and New Hampshire.
Leaders of the groups behind this effort are hoping to expand their
own donor base as well as raise money that they say they will spend
to prevent Mrs. Clinton from becoming the next senator from New
York.
"It's going to take more than a village to defeat Hillary Clinton,"
xy Winton Blount III, chairman of the Alabama Republican Party,
wrote in asking 10,000 donors for checks of $50 or $100, to be
spent on a Senate election more than 1,000 miles away. Other
-groups are mailing similar letters.
It is not the prospect of achieving victory for Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, or any other Republican candidate, that is inspiring the
leaders of these organizations. They say their goal is simply to keep
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Mrs. Clinton out of the Senate.
"It's less motivated by the Republican we want to win it's
motivated by preventing her to be elected to the United States
Senate," said Craig Shirley, a conservative Republican consultant
who helped organize Conservatives for Effective Leadership, a
political action committee formed here last month with the goal of
raising $10 million to pay for advertisements against Mrs. Clinton in
New York State next year.
New York Republicans had mixed reactions to the outside efforts
against Mrs. Clinton.
"We're very pleased to have organizations outside New York
looking to defeat Hillary Clinton," said Dan Allen, a spokesman for
the state party. "We feel she is only coming up here to run for
president in 2004."
Bruce Teitelbaum, director of Giuliani's exploratory committee, said
the mayor would attend fund-raisers in Alabama later this month for
his Senate campaign, but sought to distance Giuliani from the
anti-Clinton fund-raising drives.
"What other groups are doing, and state parties are doing, in respect
to raising money, it's not something we're connected to," Teitelbaum
said.
One Republican strategist involved in the Senate race in New York
doubted that the contributions aimed at defeating Mrs. Clinton
would benefit her Republican opponent.
"I don't see it as a tremendous benefit to any candidate," this
strategist said. "This is what the Republicans did with Ted Kennedy
and the Democrats did with Newt Gingrich. Every fund-raising
group in the world loves a bogyman."
Howard Wolfson, the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's exploratory
committee, declined to comment on the conservative groups' efforts.
Shirley's PAC, raising money from across the country, was created,
its literature says, to "educate voters about unqualified candidates."
But Shirley confirmed that it would devote all its energies in the next
year and a half to the effort to defeat one candidate: Mrs. Clinton.
"From a fund-raising standpoint, anyone on the right who doesn't
target Hillary is a fool," Shirley said.
"I run just one cell of the vast right-wing conspiracy," he said. "The
sophistry that she was selling when she coined that phrase was that
Monica was part of some right-wing conspiracy, that we had put her
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up to stalking the president. Of course, that wasn't true."
Some groups started raising money against Mrs. Clinton weeks
before she began her "listening tour" in New York on Wednesday.
"I figured that a lot of the Clinton haters would come out of the
woodwork," said Charles Lewis, founder and executive director of
the Center for Public Integrity, a campaign finance watchdog. "I just
thought it would take a few more weeks."
It is unlikely that all the money netted by the anti-Clinton appeals will
really be spent in New York; various conservative groups have long
used President Clinton and his wife as fund-raising targets. But
whatever is spent in New York will only add to what already appears
virtually certain to be the most expensive Senate race in history.
Mrs. Clinton's supporters hope to raise $25 million for her campaign,
and her most likely Republican opponent, Giuliani, hopes to raise an
equal amount. If other organizations, like the Democratic and
Republican national committees, make good on their promise to
spend millions on issue advertisements, the race could end up costing
$100 million, political strategists say.
Fund-raising strategists say that the anti-Hillary fervor of the
Republican organizations demonstrates that Mrs. Clinton has already
assumed her husband's role as a magnet for checks when her name is
cited in conservative fund-raising letters.
The Republican National Committee mentioned Mrs. Clinton's health
care policies in recent written and telephone solicitations for cash. "It
has been a huge success," said Clifford D. May, the committee's
communications director. "There is no question that Hillary Clinton
and her policies energize the Republican activists. She is a polarizing
figure."
Following Alabama's lead, the New Hampshire Republican Party will
also ask 10,000 New Hampshire Republicans to contribute money to
defeat Mrs. Clinton.
"We've had eight years of Clinton-Gore," said Steve Duprey, the
party chairman. "Why would we let yet another Clinton do it in the
United States Senate? I predict it will be one of our most effective
fund-raising letters. She is a figure that energizes the Republican
base."
Gary Nolan, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, said he had
always assumed that Mrs. Clinton would not run, because "she has
too much to lose." But after it became clear in late May that she
almost certainly would run, Nolan quickly helped found
Conservatives for Effective Leadership, the PAC that Shirley also
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had a hand in creating.
Two weeks ago Nolan, whose literature calls on supporters to help
"pillory Hillary," sent 40,000 letters to conservatives around the
country. In an interview, he declined to say how much had already
been raised, describing the response only as "huge." His solicitation
letter promised "television commercials, newspaper ads, voter
guides, media packets there's nothing we won't do to keep Hillary
out of office."
Blount, the Alabama Republican chairman, said he had challenged
other state party leaders to raise money to spend on anti-Clinton
advertisements in New York.
Already the Alabama letter has raised tens of thousands of dollars,
party officials said. And Blount said he planned to deliver that
money personally to Republican leaders in New York. He also said
Mrs. Clinton clearly hoped to use a Senate seat as a launching pad to
return to the White House:
"Just imagine four years from now -- 'Hillary for President," Blount
wrote "Scary, isn't it?"
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Mrs. Clinton out of the Senate.
"It's less motivated by the Republican we want to win it's
motivated by preventing her to be elected to the United States
Senate," said Craig Shirley, a conservative Republican consultant
who helped organize Conservatives for Effective Leadership, a
political action committee formed here last month with the goal of
raising $10 million to pay for advertisements against Mrs. Clinton in
New York State next year.
New York Republicans had mixed reactions to the outside efforts
against Mrs. Clinton.
"We're very pleased to have organizations outside New York
looking to defeat Hillary Clinton," said Dan Allen, a spokesman for
the state party. "We feel she is only coming up here to run for
president in 2004."
Bruce Teitelbaum, director of Giuliani's exploratory committee, said
the mayor would attend fund-raisers in Alabama later this month for
his Senate campaign, but sought to distance Giuliani from the
anti-Clinton fund-raising drives.
"What other groups are doing, and state parties are doing, in respect
to raising money, it's not something we're connected to," Teitelbaum
said.
One Republican strategist involved in the Senate race in New York
doubted that the contributions aimed at defeating Mrs. Clinton
would benefit her Republican opponent.
"I don't see it as a tremendous benefit to any candidate," this
strategist said. "This is what the Republicans did with Ted Kennedy
and the Democrats did with Newt Gingrich. Every fund-raising
group in the world loves a bogyman."
Howard Wolfson, the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's exploratory
committee, declined to comment on the conservative groups' efforts.
Shirley's PAC, raising money from across the country, was created,
its literature says, to "educate voters about unqualified candidates."
But Shirley confirmed that it would devote all its energies in the next
year and a half to the effort to defeat one candidate: Mrs. Clinton.
"From a fund-raising standpoint, anyone on the right who doesn't
target Hillary is a fool," Shirley said.
"I run just one cell of the vast right-wing conspiracy," he said. "The
sophistry that she was selling when she coined that phrase was that
Monica was part of some right-wing conspiracy, that we had put her
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up to stalking the president. Of course, that wasn't true."
Some groups started raising money against Mrs. Clinton weeks
before she began her "listening tour" in New York on Wednesday.
"I figured that a lot of the Clinton haters would come out of the
woodwork," said Charles Lewis, founder and executive director of
the Center for Public Integrity, a campaign finance watchdog. "I just
thought it would take a few more weeks."
It is unlikely that all the money netted by the anti-Clinton appeals will
really be spent in New York; various conservative groups have long
used President Clinton and his wife as fund-raising targets. But
whatever is spent in New York will only add to what already appears
virtually certain to be the most expensive Senate race in history.
Mrs. Clinton's supporters hope to raise $25 million for her campaign,
and her most likely Republican opponent, Giuliani, hopes to raise an
equal amount. If other organizations, like the Democratic and
Republican national committees, make good on their promise to
spend millions on issue advertisements, the race could end up costing
$100 million, political strategists say.
Fund-raising strategists say that the anti-Hillary fervor of the
Republican organizations demonstrates that Mrs. Clinton has already
assumed her husband's role as a magnet for checks when her name is
cited in conservative fund-raising letters.
The Republican National Committee mentioned Mrs. Clinton's health
care policies in recent written and telephone solicitations for cash. "It
has been a huge success," said Clifford D. May, the committee's
communications director. "There is no question that Hillary Clinton
and her policies energize the Republican activists. She is a polarizing
figure."
Following Alabama's lead, the New Hampshire Republican Party will
also ask 10,000 New Hampshire Republicans to contribute money to
defeat Mrs. Clinton.
"We've had eight years of Clinton-Gore," said Steve Duprey, the
party chairman. "Why would we let yet another Clinton do it in the
United States Senate? I predict it will be one of our most effective
fund-raising letters. She is a figure that energizes the Republican
base."
Gary Nolan, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, said he had
always assumed that Mrs. Clinton would not run, because "she has
too much to lose." But after it became clear in late May that she
almost certainly would run, Nolan quickly helped found
Conservatives for Effective Leadership, the PAC that Shirley also
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had a hand in creating.
Two weeks ago Nolan, whose literature calls on supporters to help
"pillory Hillary," sent 40,000 letters to conservatives around the
country. In an interview, he declined to say how much had already
been raised, describing the response only as "huge." His solicitation
letter promised "television commercials, newspaper ads, voter
guides, media packets there's nothing we won't do to keep Hillary
out of office."
Blount, the Alabama Republican chairman, said he had challenged
other state party leaders to raise money to spend on anti-Clinton
advertisements in New York.
Already the Alabama letter has raised tens of thousands of dollars,
party officials said. And Blount said he planned to deliver that
money personally to Republican leaders in New York. He also said
Mrs. Clinton clearly hoped to use a Senate seat as a launching pad to
return to the White House:
"Just imagine four years from now -- 'Hillary for President," Blount
wrote "Scary, isn't it?"
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