President Bush, center, and first lady Laura Bush, third from right, stand with the Kennedy Center honorees in the Blue Room of the White House during a reception preceding the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala on Dec. 3, 2006, in Washington, D.C. From left are singer Smokey Robinson, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, country singer Dolly Parton, film director Steven Spielberg and conductor Zubin Mehta.
Credit: GETTY/ Eric Draper/The White House