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Heen awards Mamie Eisenhower, then First Lady, with
a scroll in recognition of her generous charity work.
"Not at all," I replied. "This is the one place you need
to know you're somebody!"
Today, the White House is at its richest in American
feeling. Jacqueline Kennedy has filled it with Americana.
And under the Kennedys, the living arts, too, are getting
their best chance to date.
When I was growing up, Washington was a cultural
desert. The theater, music, and the dance generally were
regarded as frivolous, but this young couple takes a dif
ferent view of the living arts, and their view reflects the
change in Americans in general.
In March, 1061, I spent a half-hour with President
Kennedy in his office. With me were June Havoc, Helen
Menken, and Leif Erickson. We were just about to go on
our 26-nation tour, the first theater project under the
State Department's cultural exchange program. The
President had invited us to talk with him.
Mr. Kennedy expressed a very sincere belief in what
we were doing. We talked of the new National Cultural
Center, a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution which
was created by Act of Congress and on whose advisory
board I am privileged to serve. The President said he saw
in it the promise of a genuine showcase for the living
arts of the entire country.
It was a curious thing: for the first time, I didn't
freeze up with a President. Perhaps it was because the
other Presidents were older than I, and this one was
younger. Or perhaps it was that President Kennedy is the
kind of man I've known all my life. I like the Irish; Helen
Hayes Brown has always been close to them. So I felt at
home with a President at last.
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How You Can Help Build the
National Cultural Center
The National Cultural Center, to which Helen Hayes
refers in her story, will be built with citizens' contribu
tions on a site in the nation's capital selected by Con
gress. To raise funds for the Center, a nationwide closed
circuit telecast will be held in about 100 cities on Nov.
29. Half the net proceeds will remain in these cities to
support their own symphonies, operas, ballets, the
museums. The other half will go to the Center.
If you believe, as Miss Hayes does, that national pride
and recognition for American performing artists are
important, support your city's American Pageant of the
Arts on Nov. 20, or send your contribution directly to
the National Cultural Center, 718 Jackson Place, N. W.,
Washington 6, D. C.
Family Weekly, October 14, 1962