Government Record · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian · June 26, 1962

A 1962 State Department speech on its Cultural Presentations Program, which sent American performing artists on tours abroad.

There is one further export category that ought to be made a part of this record. It is the category we call cultural presentations, a program under which American performing artists are sent abroad on tours to demonstrate the cultural interests and achievements of the American people.