Charles A. Lindbergh Receives Langley Medal, 1927, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Presentation of Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Standing from left to right: Assistant Secretary Alexander Wetmore, Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot, Representative Walter H. Newton, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Representative R. Walton Moore, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Frederic A. Delano, Chief Justice William H. Taft (Chancellor). Seated from left to right: Representative Albert Johnson, Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris, Senator Reed Smoot..