Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Last year, Congress established at our suggestion the National Endowment for the Arts, to enhance the place of the artist in our country.

For you, Jane--you and your colleagues--have done what few statesmen on earth can do.

And I hope that history will record this example of how music has reached across the oceans, the walls, and the ideologies that separate us ...

It was just about 10 days ago, out in the State of Idaho, that I spoke of the common feeling for life, the common love of song and story whi...