John Kennedy actually said...

I have long believed, as you know, that the quality of America's cultural life is an element of immense importance in the scales by which our worth will ultimately be weighed.

Context

Letter Accepting Resignation of August Heckscher as Special Consultant for the Arts.

06/16/1963

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