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  • Thank you very much and

  • I appreciate that

  • kind introduction, Dan.

  • I am delighted

  • to be here for many reasons; to celebrate this

  • occasion

  • and

  • for me it's personal because

  • I love the Met

  • and I love New York

  • and I love American art,

  • But it's also public and official

  • because every time I travel anywhere in the world on your behalf

  • representing our country,

  • I am

  • thrilled by the honor

  • of

  • being for a very short period of time, indeed,

  • a representative to the world of this country that we love and cherish.

  • Everyone here at the museum;

  • people who have

  • devoted their lives and their careers to

  • creating a world-class institution, deserve our thanks.

  • Dan and the board, Tom Campbell,

  • Emily Rafferty,

  • Harold Holzer, everyone on the staff;

  • I'm delighted that Mayor Bloomberg is here this evening,

  • Representative Carolyn Maloney, and

  • other

  • public officials who support

  • this American treasure.

  • Now improving and

  • a way of

  • demonstrating continuing creativity on behalf of the museum is no easy task

  • but you have

  • once again pulled it off.

  • To be here with you,

  • in order to welcome

  • this New American Wing is a special pleasure

  • but it's also been

  • my great delight as Secretary to launch a new partnership between

  • the State department and the museum that will help the Met reach a global

  • audience.

  • As Dan said, this work has been led

  • so well by the Assistant Secretary for Education and Cultural Affairs, my friend,

  • Ann Stock

  • and her team working closely with the team here at the museum.

  • We started with a

  • commitment to showcase the remarkable new Islamic art galleries

  • to demonstrate to the world

  • what the Met had done on behalf of Islamic art

  • and what we did was to send the word out to two-hundred-and-seventy American

  • embassies and consulates, twenty-five of them in Arab nations,

  • promoting this exhibit

  • and doing so with

  • online outreach, posters, video tours, and interviews with the curators and

  • conservators.

  • This is giving more than fourteen million foreign visitors the chance to

  • experience, at a distance, the Met's art and insights.

  • We are also now exploring plans to incorporate

  • educational materials developed by the Met in our English language training

  • programs

  • that serve disadvantaged young people around the world.

  • But what a way of showcasing American history and values

  • to open to the world this new American Wing?

  • So we will be back, Tom, to talk with you about how we might collaborate in doing

  • so.

  • Because walking through

  • these extraordinary rooms

  • and seeing not only masterpieces of American art, but a sense of

  • our country coming into its own

  • will have a profound effects on how people think about who we are

  • and perhaps even more importantly

  • who we will be.

  • If you look at the work

  • in these

  • rooms and think about it, of course, you can be inspired by so many

  • of the paintings or the sculptures,

  • but I want just for a moment to

  • talk about the iconic work of Washington Crossing the Delaware.

  • Now I'm well aware of historical quibbles,

  • uh... but

  • sometimes metaphor in image

  • tell the story even better.

  • If you look at the faces of the men that are pictured there and

  • imagine how they must have felt on that

  • bitterly cold Christmas night.

  • The revolution was not going well,

  • the idea of America that these men were fighting and sacrificing for

  • was fragile,

  • the future uncertain,

  • that evening, we're told, that General Washington had Thomas Paine's words read

  • aloud to his troops,

  • "These are the times that try men's souls."

  • But Paine had not lost hope,

  • he wrote that not a place upon Earth might be so happy as America.

  • I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength in distress,

  • and grow brave by reflection.

  • Those men who crossed the Delaware were no summer soldiers, no sunshine patriots,

  • they were Americans doing what Americans would do again and again in the

  • centuries that followed:

  • pulling together

  • to overcome every challenge,

  • working for the common good,

  • providing exceptional leadership

  • for an exceptional nation.

  • Standing before that

  • painting tonight, more than two hundred and thirty-five years later, we can still

  • look at it and think of

  • those brave first patriots

  • but it's not just thinking about the past that we should be inspired to do.

  • We've come a long way since then of course in that challenges we face are

  • not existential in the same way,

  • despite which you might see and hear on cable

  • television,

  • but these are indeed difficult days for many Americans and there is a lot of

  • work ahead of us to renew our strength at home and

  • secure our leadership abroad.

  • How can anyone walk through this new American Wing and not believe

  • that America has the talent and ingenuity,

  • the grace and the grit,

  • to come through any icy waters?

  • We've done it before and

  • we are doing it again.

  • Each time we face new challenges there are the naysayers who have to be proven wrong

  • and we do it not just with words but

  • we outwork we out innovate

  • we out compete every rival.

  • We build a resilient economy at home and a

  • global architecture of institutions and alliances that not only protect

  • our interest and advance our values but

  • really do stand for the best

  • of humanity

  • and yes, we do sometimes smile in the face of trouble and

  • gather strength from distress,

  • and grow brave by reflection.

  • Being here in this city that I love,

  • we've lived through terrorist attacks,

  • two long wars,

  • and a global financial crisis in just the last decade.

  • But America remains

  • an exceptional country.

  • I see that as I travel hundreds of thousands of miles a year,

  • everywhere I go,

  • American leadership is still respected and admired, and

  • it's not just because we have a strong

  • economy,

  • it's not just because we have the strongest military in the world, it's not

  • just because our workers for the most productive, or our

  • universities and cultural institutions

  • set the global

  • gold standard.

  • It's because of who we are,

  • what you can see in the faces of the people who are portrayed in

  • the remarkable paintings that fill this new American Wing.

  • Yes, we have challenges but I have no doubt,

  • and neither should anyone,

  • that we will

  • meet them

  • and overcome them.

  • Today is a

  • special time

  • to be reminded

  • of who we are as Americans,

  • to know that this new American Wing

  • holds much more than

  • wonderful

  • art objects.

  • It holds the promise of

  • what this country stands for,

  • who we are as a people,

  • and the kind of future that we will make together.

  • Thanks very much to the Metropolitan Museum and to all of you who so

  • generously support it, year in and year out.

  • You have helped to show us our past

  • in a new light

  • and by doing so, give us

  • a vision of our future.

  • Thank you all very much.

  • Good evening and Dan, thank you for that warm introduction

  • and congratulations on a supurb renovation.

  • It really is a colossal achievement

  • in presenting our nation's history and identity.

  • In fact, this may be the best facelift on the Upper East Side

  • and that's really saying something.

  • Seriously, this magnificent redesign

  • makes the Met an even more powerful magnet for New Yorkers,

  • it certainly helps Diana and my neighborhood,

  • and for visitors around the world, this is the place to come.

  • Our First Lady Michelle Obama was here for the opening of the Engelhard Court

  • and I'm happy that Secretary Hillary Clinton is here to celebrate the entire

  • project's completion with us.

  • You should know that secretary clinton has been a champion of the Met

  • from her days as First Lady and through her service in New York as one of

  • our senators.

  • UmÉ Madam Secretary, it's always great to welcome you home to New York.

  • Thanks for everything you've done to restore the importance of culture as a form of

  • international diplomacy.

  • And incidentally, while you're up here from Washington, please spend some money we

  • need the sales tax revenues.

  • Because of the support of arts and culture,

  • uh... champions like Secretary Clinton

  • and the vision and the tenacity of this museums founders

  • and all the people contribute to make this institution great

  • the Met makes a tremendous contribution to firm the values of the United States

  • culture around the world. In these galleries, the more than one hundred

  • thousand schoolchildren the Met serves each year will have an extraordinary new

  • experience.

  • The new American Wing will do so much to keep New York City's thriving tourism

  • industry going,

  • Last year, I'm happy to say, we had over fifty million tourists come to New

  • York City and that is certainly one of the reasons people come from around the

  • world and around the country to New York City.

  • And I did want to recognize, Dan already did it but

  • the Met's wonderful president, Emily Rafferty.

  • She not only does a wonderful job here at this museum but she is also

  • the chair of NYC and Company,

  • which is the city's advertising arm and she has really has an awful lot to do with

  • the success of the city from a tourism perspective,

  • creates an enormous number jobs, Emily, from all those people who work in

  • the tourism industry,

  • most of whom did not call me this morning to say please say thank you to Emily

  • but nevertheless,

  • I just want to say thank you and Tom, I will say,

  • Tom, I will say that a few months ago, we had the opening of the Islamic wing-

  • great success,

  • now this wing, American- great success. What are you gonna do in a couple of

  • months?

  • You're on a roll! Don't stop now.

  • Seriously, the galleries are a tribute to many partners who came together to see

  • this ambitious

  • eight-year project from start to finish

  • and the magnificent result really is a testament to the extraordinary team of

  • curators who brought us over the finish line,

  • and under the terrific leadership of Tom, Dan, and the entire board and staff, I want

  • to say thank you on behalf of all the people of New York City.

  • You know, even in tough economic times, it is important that public-private

  • partnerships

  • moved forward

  • and through our Department of Cultural Affairs, the City of New York was pleased

  • to have contributed ten million dollars.

  • And Emily, don't say thank you to me, it's Kate Levin and Patti Harris and you

  • know that if anybody does.

  • So thank you forÉ

  • But it is the taxpayers of New York City that really deserve the credit.

  • So to all of you here who support the Metropolitan Museum, I wanted to say

  • thank you very much.

  • I used to be, I used to have the honor of being a member of the board,

  • John Rosenthal, Rosenwald had wanted me to join the board,

  • there was a member of the board who was very skeptical about me,

  • and the only way I was going to get by the board, Parker was okay with this,

  • but there was a member of the board that I had to have an interview with and I

  • had to be on my best behavior

  • so I had a memorable lunch with this young lady,

  • I guess she would have been in her early thirties something like that,

  • and Mrs. de la Renta, in the end, I'd charmed her so I got through

  • that.

  • Anyways,

  • you know there was a time when the United States wasn't thought to have a

  • culture worth sharing

  • but the establishment of this museum in 1870,

  • in partnership with the City of New York, was essential to helping us understand

  • the unique challenges and opportunities of our society,

  • seen through the insight and skills of the greatest artists in the world.

  • And as more people from around the world look to American democracy for

  • inspiration,

  • the Metropolitan Museum and this new American Wing

  • have an increasingly important role to play. So Tom, Dan, Emily, everyone that

  • works at this wonderful place, the board,

  • congratulations! It is a wonderful achievement what you've done here, it is

  • something that people will enjoy, be inspired by, and learn from

  • for many generations to come and the rest of us really are beneficiaries

  • thank you and God bless.

Thank you very much and

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