President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will honor the following National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts recipients for 2006 today.

HUMANITIES RECIPIENTS:

Fouad Ajami, Middle Eastern studies scholar, Washington; James Buchanan, economist, Fairfax, Va.; Nickolas Davatzes, historian, Wilton, Conn.; Robert Fagles, translator and classicist, Princeton, N.J.; the Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, Calif.; Mary Lefkowitz, classicist, Wellesley, Mass.; Bernard Lewis, Middle Eastern studies scholar, Princeton; Mark Noll, religion historian, Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.; Meryle Secrest, biographer, Washington, and Kevin Starr, historian, San Francisco, Calif.