DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1971

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington, Chairman

MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, Ohio
JOHN O. MARSH, JR., Virginia
JOHN J. FLYNT, JR., Georgia
DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin 1

BEN REIFEL, South Dakota

JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
WENDELL WYATT, Oregon

GEORGE E. EVANS, Staff Assistant

1
1 Assigned to Subcommittee, February 20, 1970.

PART 5

Testimony of Members of Congress and Interested

Individuals and Organizations

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1970

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGEN

CIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1971

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1970.

Mrs. HANSEN. The committee will come to order. We have the privilege this morning of hearing from our very distinguished colleagues, the Members of the House of Representatives and other interested individuals and organizations, who are appearing in behalf of various items in or relative to the budget.

THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

WITNESSES

HON. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS BENJAMIN H. READ, DIRECTOR, WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

Mrs. HANSEN. This morning we have our very distinguished former Vice President, Mr. Hubert H. Humphrey, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Please insert your statement in the record and summarize it for us, Mr. Vice President.

(Mr. Humphrey's full statement follows:)

I appreciate the opportunity to appear today as chairman of the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to review with the committee the progress and plans of the center to date and to present our estimates and request for appropriations needed in the coming fiscal year to permit this new presidential memorial institution to open next October as presently planned.

ORIGINS

Let me trace briefly the origins of the center.

In response to a joint resolution of the Congress, President Kennedy appointed the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission in October of 1961 to plan the Nation's memorial to Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States. In its final report to the President and the Congress in 1966, the Commission recommended that the Wilson memorial include a center for scholars in downtown Washington. The Commission's proposal was considered, expanded upon, and endorsed by then Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. John W. Gardner, and the President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1967. Legislation to create the Center was introduced and passed in the 90th Congress.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was established by act of Congress approved October 24, 1968, to be "a living institution expressing the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson *** symbolizing and strengthening the fruitful relation between the world of learning and the world of public affairs." A copy of the statute (Public Law 90-637) accompanies this statement as attachment E. The Center was placed in the Smithsonian Institution under the administration of a 15-man, Presidential Board of Trustees, eight to be chosen from private life and seven from executive branch positions. The trustees of the Center were appointed subsequently by President Johnson and President (1)