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Lyndon Johnson: “Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 1965
Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Arts and Humanities Bill

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