April 6, 2001

Jefferson Lecture Features Attack on Bush and Gore

By RON SOUTHWICK

The playwright Arthur Miller used the 30th annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities last week to deliver a stinging attack on President Bush, Al Gore, the Supreme Court, and the reporters who covered last year's presidential election.

Mr. Miller, author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, delivered the speech to a capacity crowd in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The lecture is the highest individual honor bestowed by the National