From Jane Alexander’s interview on Booknotes:

“I grew up in a totally Republican environment. My father, my brother, all my parents' friends. I have no beef against Republicans, per se, except I don't like special interests telling them only what to do and that they don't have any sense of noblesse oblige anymore. I mean, that was what the Republicans were wonderful at when I grew up. You know, even my own father--if somebody needed a helping hand or a hand up, he was the first to give it. So the Republicans, per se, have never been against the National Endowment for the Arts and have supported it. It was just a new breed of politician that seemed to come in with the 104th Congress.“