[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 38 (Monday, September 27, 1999)]
[Pages 1784-1785]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement Honoring the National Medal of the Arts and National 
Humanities Medal Recipients

September 21, 1999

    This year's recipients of the 1999 National Medal of the Arts and 
National Humanities Medal stand at the pinnacle of American artistic and 
academic achievement. Through their ideas, their scholarship, and their 
works of art, they have opened all our eyes to the

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richness and the miracle of the human experience. All Americans owe them 
a tremendous debt of gratitude.