The taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Humanities spent $750,000 in 1976 — $3.9 million in 2022 — on grants for well-heeled doctors, lawyers, and school administrators to “attend tuition-free, vacation-like, month-long humanistic bull sessions at some of the choicest university watering holes in the country next summer.”
That’s according to Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, who gave a Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Humanities in January 1976 for wasteful and nonsensical spending.
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