MAI Tentatively Accepts Perot Offer to Move
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PrintThe Board of Trustees of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation voted to tentatively accept H. Ross Perot's $70 million offer to move the Museum to Texas. The vote was made subject to reconsideration if the board decides the financing commitments made in the new proposal from the American Museum of Natural History are sufficient.
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McGill, Douglas. "Museum Tentatively Accepts Perot Offer to Move to Texas." The New York Times, 28 June 1985, p. C21.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
June 27, 1985