![]() A member of his administration, the State Department’s Philip H. ![]() “We have … had a special interest in the civilization of ancient Egypt from which many of our own cultural traditions have sprung,” Kennedy wrote in a letter to Congress. taxpayer money for this purpose: That Americans would be paying to save part of their own cultural heritage. Kennedy was seeking to help Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt rescue ancient temples from flooding in 1961, he made an interesting argument to convince Congress to approve the spending of $10 million of U.S.
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