Philanthropy
Other Cantor assistance has gone to College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., the University of California Graduate School of Management, and Cornell University.
When the White House unveiled the redecorated Oval Office in 1993, it displayed a bronze cast of Rodin's "Thinker," which President Clinton had personally arranged to borrow from the Cantor collection. The Cantors also financed a sculpture garden at the White House in 1994. In 1995, he and his wife were awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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