English: President George W. Bush stands with the recipients of the 2002 National Humanities Medal in the Oval Office Thursday, Feb. 27, 2003. From left, they are: Joseph McDade, who accepts the award on behalf of Frankie Hewitt of Ford's Theatre; Ellen Carroll Walton, who accepts the award on behalf of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union; Dr. Donald Kagan of Yale University; author Patricia MacLachlan; Brian Lamb of C-SPAN; Art Linkletter of the United Seniors Association; Frank Conroy, who accepts the award on behalf of the Iowa Writers' Workshop; and Justice Clarence Thomas, who accepts the award on behalf of Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution. White House photo by Paul Morse.