But there definitely was a decline in the Seventies and Eighties. So that's one of the challenges for the future. Let's discuss the role of the arts in one's individual life. And language is words, which then become expressed in the written word and so on. You start there.
Music is as old as time.
In some ways, yes. Congress was pushing us to that. We had to begin to define for legislators the value of the arts to society. And in doing so, we began to examine what the NEA had been doing all along, and what its purpose was. In short, we had to show them what the value of the NEA was.