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August 27, 1970
Suggested Remarks by the President
In Response to a Toast by Mrs. Norman Chandler
This has been a year in which the President and
Congress have often seen things differently -- and we've
had our share of legislative defeats along with the victories.
But one vote that did come out remarkably well was on the
bill extending and expanding the arts and humanities program.
At first, a lot of people said we were whistling in the
wind in asking for a doubling of the program. But when the
vote on final passage came in the House on June 30, it
was a smashing 262-78 in favor -- and the chief opponent
of the bill (H.R. Gross) commented rather ruefully that
"I have heard and seen more converts today than I've seen
in a long, long time. "
Those of us who care about the arts certainly welcome
those converts. But we also need the people -- the Buff
Chandlers, and so many others in this room -- who have been
in there for a long time.
That legislative victory was greatly satisfying in
itself, but in a deeper sense it was also symbolic of
the place the arts have assumed in American life today.
And it was a testament to the leadership given so long
and so enthusiastically by the Buff Chandlers of America:
by people who care, and whose efforts and inspiration have
given the arts a solid base of support not in one or two
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