For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 27, 2003
Statement by the Press Secretary
President George W. Bush today announced the recipients of the
National Humanities Medal for the year 2002. The President and First
Lady Laura Bush, Honorary Chair of the President's Committee on the
Arts and Humanities, will present the medals to the six individuals and
two organizations at a ceremony today.
National Humanities Medal Recipients for 2002:
Dr. Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at
Yale University (Connecticut) Brian Lamb, CEO of C-SPAN (Washington,
D.C.) Art Linkletter, Chairman of United Seniors Association
(California) Patricia Maclachlan, Author (Massachusetts) Iowa Writers'
Workshop (University of Iowa) The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
(Virginia) Frankie Hewitt, Producing Artistic Director of Ford's
Theater (Washington, D.C.) Dr. Thomas Sowell, The Rose and Milton
Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution
(California)
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