The $100 Billion Question

Description: Mansfield would look for the things democracy overlooks.

Transcript:  If I had a hundred billion dollars to give away, I would first remember that we live in a democracy.  So I would look for the things that democracy overlooks.  And those are mainly, I would say, the higher things.  Not so much health, which everybody is concerned with and which the government pays lots of money for.  But the . . . our high culture.  I would take as an example Andrew Carnegie’s making libraries available to small towns in America.  That, I think, was a very well thought contribution.  Something similar to that to . . . to . . .  And the arts, music and of course the intellect, but not necessarily the universities, politically correct as they are.

Recorded on: 6/13/07