National Endowment for the Humanities - Obama Presidency Oral History Back National Endowment for the Humanities Index / Organizations Transcripts Pete Rouse ...National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities . And, in conjunction with PBS, th... ...nominated him to be the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities , because he announced he was going t... ...administration, he was the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities . And the president that came in, Davi... Jeremy Bernard ...including White House liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH] . This interview is bein... ...National Endowment for the Humanities [ NEH ] . This interview is being conducte... ...as liaison for the White House to the National Endowment for the Humanities ? It was a huge learning curve for m... ...had been very hands on with the NEH , as well as the National Endowment fo... ...said, “You know, this is not the Obama NEH , National Endowment for th... ...“You know, this is not the Obama NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities . This is your NEH. And we're not her... ...for the Humanities. This is your NEH . And we're not here to tell you wha... ...invited, I think, eighteen or something NEH career employees, some who hadn't bee... ...you invite to something like that? With NEH , you're dealing with a much-smalle... ...even know who my predecessor was at NEH . But they told me—most of them said... Show more... Gautam Raghavan ...One was a possibility to go work in the National Endowment for the Humanities , and I remember thinking to myself... Bill Ivey ...Bill Ferris just became the head of the NEH [National Endowment for th... ...just became the head of the NEH [ National Endowment for the Humanities ], we're not going to have two Whit... ...the rails. From the beginning, NEA and NEH were attached to the White Hous... ...with everything from NASA to the NEH . Right, right. How did yo... ...was Dana Gioia at NEA, Bruce Cole at NEH , and Anne-Imelda Radice at th... ...you place the chairman of NEA and NEH and the director of IMLS on th... ...You know, they had the NEA and the NEH . The White House never reached out t... ...how do you take a PDF document from the NEH budget operation and make it into ... ...congressman, lobbied like hell for the NEH job, and there were very few other—yo... ...the House who supported the NEA and the NEH , even while there were conservativ... ...slightly Anne Radice, she had been an NEH person. She had been an NEA person, sh... ...from Indiana University, running NEH , real right-wing guy. He hated me. Yo... ...just so funny—she's now back with the NEH . She works for the NEH. Right. An... ...back with the NEH. She works for the NEH . Right. And Bruce Cole passed away... ...the majority, and the NEA and also the NEH to an extent, they were signatur... ...was something comparable, I think, at NEH , although not quite the same i... ...And it's okay, because Jon Peede at NEH and Mary Anne at NEA, at least the... ...How did the transition feel about NEH and about humanities as a part o... ...NEA, and Bill Ferris as chairman of the NEH . And Bill, another folklore guy, h... ...and things that he pursued with the NEH . And I just kind of stayed away fro... ...group was thinking about a chair for NEH ? How did that go? Leach wa... ...of gets combined into the NEA and the NEH . And then, of course, it get... ...“Who are you?” “Well, I'm from the NEH .” “What do you do? Oh, that'... ...or events around the NEA or the NEH . Not so far as I know, no, I don'... Show more... Jane Chu ...cultural organizations there, the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH] and IMLS [Institute of Museum an... ...National Endowment for the Humanities [ NEH ] and IMLS [Institute of Museum an... ...“siblings separated at birth,” with the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as IMLS. And at the time ther... ...of state arts councils. One is the NEH councils and the other is th... ...state government. All of them are. The NEH , the humanities councils, are usuall... ...Endowment for the Arts, unlike the National Endowment for the Humanities , is about smaller grants going t... ...there is a grey area between the NEH and the NEA on all of this. Sometime... ...like it's overlap, but we really—the National Endowment for the Humanities has traditionally been an organizatio... ...less than, say, an average grant of the National Endowment for the Humanities . Great. Okay. I'm going to suggest... ...messages here, but what mechanisms does NEH have for explaining itself to th... ...which launched the NEA and the NEH . It's not lost on me on that. And ... Show more... Related Topics go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Democrats Democrats