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Remarks
by Hillary Rodham ~linton
Sara Lee Corporation Donation at the Art jInstitute of Chicago
June 3, 1998 -- Chicago, Ill~nois
(As Delivered)
I am tmly thrilled and delighted to be a part of this' very ibportant announcement. It is
always wonderful for me to be back in Chicago, to have an oppob:unity to be at the Art Institute
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-- for today is very special. Because, as John Blyan just said, this gift is a Millennium gift to
America by one of America's great corPorations. And what that! means is that we have yet
another example of the extraordinary and veIY much needed contributions by the private sector
for the vitality ofthe public and not-for-profit sectors. You kno'&', our countly is unique in the
way we have created this extraordinary synthesis among our pri~ate, for-profit companies that
do so much to enhance our standard of living and provide' 'oppoJunities here and around the
world; our public sector which represents our collective effOlts (0 find a connection with where
we are going and to carve out what we believe to be in the c6m~on good, and the not-for:-pl'ofit
sector which is unique in the development of any civilization th~t has reached its highest point
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here in the United States as we end this century.
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As the President announced last year at the National Ar2hives, that our countly would
mark the passing of the centmy and the millennium by looking at how we could,honor the past
and imagine the future, he spoke about how each of us in our pr!ivate and our professional and
our 'public capacities could give gifts to the future. It might be ~omething as simple as cleaning
up the Civil War sculpture in the middle of the town square. ot perhaps going through one's
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attic and finding those letters from grandparents and great grandparents that can be shared with
grandchildren and great grandchildren. Or it might be as great hs looking for ways that we can
find in America to save America's treasures. BuL.it was c1eatA a call to action for all of us..
And I coul~ ne:er have in:agined stand~ng wi~h my husb~d inlth~ archives last summer, that we
would begm thIS extraordmary effort WIth a gIft such as thIS concleved by Sara Lee and to be '
given to museums around the countly and indeed to museums ~"ound the wc;>rld.
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Now, Sara Lee and its leadership John Bryan'and St~ven McMillen and the Board of
Directors -- clearly understand, as you heat"d John say, that we :at"e all just passing through, We
all make a contribution through our families and the work we do. But celtainly, in order for us
to have some sense of meaning 'in our own lives and to believe] that the values and traditions that
we have cherished will live on, we have to do more. We have Ito make them more creatively.
And the attistic treasures, the cultural treasures of our countly L although they' are rarely as old
as the Millennium -- and the way that the rest of the world haslcontrib~ted to what makes
America unique, as we see from these extraordinaty paintings,! is tmly one of the gifts that
.America has given to humanity over the course of our existende. The challenge for us now is
how do we maintain and continue that American tradition? ; ,
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Well, I can think of no better way than what we are do,ng this morning. For a great
corporation to share these gifts of art with men and women anti palticularly children all over our
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country is a sfatement of values. We may be holding thi~ event the old home of the Chicago
Stock Exchange but it is now a part of an art museum. That, to niIe, is a perfect synthesis of
what we mean when we think 'about how America has really recr~ated a whole concept of
citizenship. So these pieces of wi will be available now for children and others to see for them
to honor the past and imagine ,the future. I'm particularly please9 that this collection will be
available in all of the cities that we saw on the map and it will be~ I hope, an inspiration and a'
challenge to others in the plivate sector as well as the non-profit ~ector to imagine howwe all
can give gifts to the future.
President Kennedy once said that the life of the aliS is far; from being a distraction to the
. life of a nation. It's very close to the center of a nation's purpose and a test of the quality of a
nation's civilization. That's why we w'emaking the celebration 6f American wis and culture
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into a pali of the life of the White House, and it is also a central focus of our Millennium
activities. What better way to honor the past and imagine the fut~re than by celebrating and
preserving the best that we have and by giving it the widest possible audience.
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I was thinking as I listened to the descriptions of the art, how much ali has meant to me.
For someone who has absolutely no talent, who has no ability t.o!try in any way to replicate
wiistically, musically Qr in any other capacity -- but what I admii'e so much in others. But I was
very lucky, because I went to public schools where arts educatiob was available, where we were
exposed to the arts, where I can remember to this day the music teacher coming into the third
. grade playing opera for us -- she chose Aida because it had lots df animals in it -- she thought
. that would keep our attention. I can remember very well being shown works of wi. I can
remember so well coming to the Art Institute. I can't say that my life would have been entirely
different if had not been for that expeIience, but I often have thohght that it probably would
have. And I think many of you in 'this audience can say the sam~. We have a special obligation
to ensure that our public museums are available to the next genej'ation of Americans and provide
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the same 0ppOliunities for imagining the future.
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So thank you so much, Sara Lee Corporation, for this Millennium gift to America .. You
have set an extraordinary example for corporate citizens and SUPPOli for the aliso I hope and
trust that others will follow in your footsteps in the months and yew's ahead. And that all of us
can look back and say that at the end of this century into the beginning of the next, that it was
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, one of the most fertile eras in AmeIican history in tenus of whatiwe gave to and took from the
alis in our country. Thank you very much. (Applause)
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