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VOTED that the Board of Regents approves the Memorandum of Understanding between the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, and hereby authorizes the Secretary to execute it.

The Regents then considered the motion by which they would signal their approval for the draft legislation, making clear that the Congressional members of the Board are asked to invite Congressional committee chairmen to introduce the measure:

VOTED that the Board of Regents requests its Congressional Members to co-sponsor and support legislation to establish the National Museum of the Amerian Indian within the Smithsonian Institution.

With these actions completed, the Secretary invited the Regents to attend a public signing ceremony and press conference on the east terrace of the National Air and Space Museum (overlooking the site of the proposed museum) at 1:30 p.m.

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