- NEA chairman Bill Ivey on the NEA’s travails in the past decade: “Our supporters in Congress, in the administration, and around the country in state arts agencies and arts organizations have become a lot more sophisticated and organized around their advocacy efforts. Some of that came from the need to protect the agency when it was under attack a few years ago. In the long run, I think we’ll look back and say [those] attacks were actually beneficial to the Endowment.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 11/18/00
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