[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 41 (Monday, October 17, 1994)]
[Pages 2011-2012]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on the Arts and Humanities Awards Recipients

October 13, 1994

    These extraordinary and talented individuals have borne eloquent 
testimony to the enduring power of the arts and the humanities in our 
everyday lives. They have contrib- 

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uted profoundly to the richness and variety of our Nation's cultural 
life, and so it is with enormous gratitude that we pay them national 
tribute.

Note: This statement was included in a White House statement announcing 
the awards ceremony for the National Medal of Arts and the Charles 
Frankel Prize scheduled for October 14. Biographies of the honorees were 
made available by the Office of the Press Secretary.