President Bush and the first lady presented the 2007 Arts and Humanities Medals to Erich Kunzel, conductor of the Cincinnati Pops; Morten Lauridsen, choral music composer; Navarre Scott Momaday, Native American author; Roy Neuberger, arts patron and collector; Craig Noel, founder and artistic director of San Diego ‘Old Globe Theater;’ Les Paul, musical innovator; Henry Steinway, former Steinway Piano Company chairman; George Tooker, painter; University of Idaho Jazz Festival; Andrew Wyeth, painter; Stephen Balch, founder of National Association of Scholars; Russell Freedman, children’s nonfiction Newbery Medal winner; Victor Davis Hanson, military historian; Roger Hertog, philanthropist; Cynthia Oszick, fiction author; Richard Pipes, Russian historian; Pauline Schultz, historian; Henry Snyder, director of English Short Title Catalogue Database of North America; Ruth Wisse, Yiddish language professor; and the Monuments Men.