John Kennedy actually said...

This is part, I think, of a nationwide movement toward excellence--a movement which had its start in the admiration of expertness and skill ...

Both Roosevelt and Lincoln understood that the life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is ...

The arts in the United States are, like so many other of our activities, varied and decentralized to a high degree.

This wonderful equality in the cultural world is an old American phenomenon.