On Sunday, Jan. 19, Cappy McGarr got a call from the White House. “I’m giving you the highest honor I can give for the arts” is what McGarr remembers then-President Joe Biden telling him. The National Medal of Arts, given under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts, is an award for the country’s top artists and arts patrons. Receiving that shiny medal places McGarr, a Dallas businessman, among the ranks of Steven Spielberg, Gene Kelly, Queen Latifah and Georgia O’Keeffe.
“I’m known for two things,” said the good-natured McGarr. “The Mark Twain Prize and giving Ken Burns the idea for a country music documentary.”
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