January 15, 1998

Clinton Makes a Grand Ole Pick to Head the Arts Endowment

By HENRY GOLDSTEIN

The nomination of William Ivey, executive director of the Country Music Foundation, to head the National Endowment for the Arts is a shrewd -- even inspired -- move by President Clinton. Indeed, the possibility of country music's top artists doing a concert on Capitol Hill to save the N.E.A. from yet another budget-pounding may be an idea whose time has come.

By turning over the N.E.A. to a man with strong ties to Nashville, Mr. Clinton has forced the yahoos

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