-- to the neh right now? are there particular goals you want to accomplish?lot of people do not understand these two endowments, the arts and humanities. let me make a distinction. the arts are all about supporting the creative processes, particularly living arts. the humanities are all about perspective -- history, philosophy, literature, and related disciplines. each operates a uniquely with basically only to other institutions in america -- the international institute of health in the national science foundation, where we allocate federal funds based on peer review. we believe -- we bring the best and brightest in various fields to assess projects or grants of one kind or another. so when you ask about goals one is to preserve the institution as it has come into being. it has developed a wonderful track record. beyond that, there are challenges of the time. i have made to initiatives that are not exactly goals, but there is a thin line between a goal and an initiative. one i call putting a greater emphasis on what it is that makes a people a people and wha

of you share that emotion when it was announced that he had been appointed the ninth chairman of the neh. chairman leach has a unique background. i think he is the only chairman in history, in this case, it 15 term congressman, he was educated at princeton, johns hopkins, and the school of economics. his background, from the beginning, was an international background. at hopkins, he did a master's degree in soviet politics and he went on in congress to found and co-chair the congressional humanities' caucus, and ultimately chaired the asia- pacific subcommittee. he then fled congress temporarily two years ago and taught at princeton and harvard before he was sucked back into the federal government to serve as the chair of the neh. his most interesting distinction is not his congressional service, his eight on reader agrees, but i think he must be the only neh chair in history to be honored in the international wrestling hall of fame. it is certainly good training for congress. welcome to the aspen institute. >> i am honored to be i think that has been -- i am honored to be here. there ar

neh? >> not necessary at all, dana. the cultural agencies aren't very different how congress works, and congress is an ever-changing institution. and the times are ever-changing. and so there are a lot of hills and valleys that are yet to be seen. i think everybody knows we are in difficult times, and to dealing with issues that are truly unprecedented. i mean, whether we think of ourselves as first generation history of the world that has to do with the capacity to destroy the planet to nuclear weaponry, whether it be the other end of the spectrum, geopolitically with the new implosive power of terrorism. . . wrenches of increased globalism at the same time people are looking for localist solutions to almost everything. and they're having this tension between globalism and localism. and then you're having new economic phenomenon that we have found to have been able to advance economic activity around the world. and at the same time we found we've been able to contract it. we're in a contracted two years. we're having t

unit, chairman leach has a unique background for neh cherry-pick i believe he is the only neh chair in history who was a member of congress and in this case, a 15 term congressman from southeast iowa. he was educated in sort of out of the way places. princeton, johns hopkins, and the london school of economics. and his background was from the beginning, and international background at. at had conceded a master degree in soviet politics, and he went on in congress, not only to found and co-chair of the congressional humanities conference, but also to serve, and i think, did you ultimately chair at the asia-pacific affairs committee, am i right? subcommittee. and he then fled congress temporarily two years ago, and taught at both princeton and harvard before he was sucked back into the federal government, to our gratitude to serve as the chair of the neh. but i think actually his most interesting distinction, is not his congressional service, his eight honorary degrees, but i do believe he must be the only neh chair in history to also be honored in the international wrestling hall of fam

globally, i thought here is clearly an area of common interest between the state department and the neh. when you talked about the need to educate young people in a reflective capacity, i thought here is an opportunity for a partnership with the department of education. i have seen sometimes these kinds of partnerships institutionalized in the national endowment for the arts, like the arts education partnership that spanned administrations. i wonder where you see long-term strategic partnerships either within the federal government or with public interest groups? >> we do work with other agencies. the three we have historically worked the most with, in terms of dollar interrelationships, or the library of congress, the museum of library services, and the national science foundation. we have also done projects with the department of education. we certainly work with the department of state. state is not a great reservoir for resources. they are pretty tightly run. but clearly how we interrelate with other institutions and work together is one way of using capacities of each in different

i'd like to have something like a national endowment for journalism like the nea and neh to make new models and try them out to assist people trying to develop new and different ways to do it. it may well be that we will not come of in this new environment for a journalism that is truly self-sustaining without some governmental role. and i think this needs to be a very important part of the discussion, seeing how government can do this. in a proactive way. >> thank you. and in the next part of our discussion we will get to some of the specific proposals. so i won't pressure on that. now i want to give gene a chance. gene has first amendment in the title of his job. >> i'm going to run with that idea and tried to take the sort of longer perspective which is very easy when you work with a paragraph that was ratified in 1791. you are sort of drawn to that kind of activity. and so let me react a little bit to what's been said here. i think steve, you answered no. i might be tentative answer on the bailout no and never. but with some, i will admit, some caution. the concept of public fund

i would like to have something like a national endowment for journalism like the nea and the neh, to take new models and try them out, to assist people and trying to develop new and different ways to do it. it may well be that we will not come up in this new environment for a journalism that is truly self-sustaining without some governmental role and i think this needs to be a very important part of the discussion in seeing how government can do this in a proactive way. >> thank you, and in the next part of our discussion we will get to some of the specific proposal so i won't press you on that now. i want to give gene a chance to get in. gene has first amendment in the title of his job. >> i'm going to run with that idea and try to take sort of a longer view and bigger if na paragraph ratified in 1971. so let me react a little bit to what has been said here. steve, you answered no, i might be attempted to answer on the bailout no and never let with some i will admit, some caution. the concept of public funding for laboratories and experiment for new development to assist an industry