OXON HILL, Md.—Richard Grenell, interim executive director of the Kennedy Center in Washington, outlined President Donald Trump’s vision for the performing arts venue.
The Washington mainstay “should be the premier center in the nation’s capital for the arts,” Grenell, who is also Trump’s envoy for special missions, told The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek on Feb. 20 during the Conservative Political Action Committee convention.
In early February, Trump removed the institution’s leadership and appointed new members to the board of trustees, who elected him chairman.
The present-day Kennedy Center was founded as the National Cultural Center in 1958 by former President Dwight Eisenhower. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy were substantial supporters of the project, raising millions for its construction starting in November 1962. Two months after JFK’s assassination in November 1963, President Lyndon Johnson signed an act of Congress into law, designating it as a living memorial to the late president….