But the last thing we need is for our bottom-up work to be pre-empted by some Federal commission chartering a national endowment.

In addition, a Washington area Lincoln-Mercury dealer was paid $14,000 by the national endowment last year.

He said the state councils could distribute the money more effectively than the national endowment.

This change, he said, would take pressure off the national endowment.

The exhibition is underwritten by the national endowment.

The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.

The move would diminish the power of the national endowment and weaken its role in shaping cultural policy.

"I would hate to see this country end up with a national endowment for nice arts."

It was the first challenge grant the national endowment has ever awarded to a literary organization.

The national endowment has given him three grants, the most recent in 1995, the year that individual grants were eliminated.