08/08/1965
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"I am pleased to transmit the Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Arts for Fiscal Year 1967--the first full year of its existence."
"Our two nations are as close as ever."
"The National Endowment for the Arts has made great progress toward realizing the mandate given it by the Congress to improve the quality of American life."
"It is a grand toast still."