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On the recordMay 16, 1966
So in the National Gallery collection, in the Freer and the Corcoran Galleries, in the museums of the Smithsonian, in the Kennedy Center that is to come, in the Pennsylvania Avenue plan--and now, in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden--we have the elements of a capital of beauty and a capital of learning that is no less impressive than its power.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Accepting on Behalf of the Nation the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Fine Arts Collection.

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