08/17/1977
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"This building stands as a metaphor for what, at its best, the relationship between government and the arts can be."
"The White House Fellowship program was established in 1964 to provide outstanding Americans with firsthand experience in the process of governing the Nation."
"Support for the arts and humanities flows through many different kinds of channels, leaving room for art and scholarship to develop naturally."
"The dedication of this Gallery to a living past and to a greater and more richly living future is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on."