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January 6, 2001
WASHINGTON, JAN 6 (AP) - President Bill Clinton is honoring 28 Americans, from baseball slugger Hank Aaron to actress Elizabeth Taylor, for answering "America's highest calling" of service to their country, the White House announced. Clinton will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 28 people Monday in a ceremony at the White House. Three recipients are being honored posthumously: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, former White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff and Chicago newspaper publisher John H.H. Sengstacke. "I am honored to recognize these talented and dedicated individuals who, in remarkable ways, have risen to America's highest calling - active citizenship," Clinton said Friday. "In giving freely of themselves and their time, they have undoubtedly inspired others to do the same." The Presidential Citizens Medal was established by President Richard Nixon in 1969 to recognize exemplary service by any citizen. Among the recipients are: -Aaron, who in 1974 broke Babe Ruth's home run record. His career record of 755 home runs remains unbroken. A front office executive for the Atlanta Braves, Aaron runs the Chasing the Dream Foundation, which helps poor children pursue careers in sports and the arts. -Muhammad Ali, former heavyweight boxing champion. Convicted in 1967 of refusing induction into the Army during the Vietnam War, Ali retired from boxing in 1980 and has traveled the world as a goodwill ambassador. -Juan Andrade Jr., president and director of the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago whose voter registration campaigns signed up more than 1 million voters. -Brown, the first black American to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as commerce secretary. He died in a plane crash in April 1996 while on a trade mission to the Balkans. -Archibald Cox, special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation and past chairman of Common Cause, a nonprofit lobbying group devoted to campaign finance reform. -Charles DeLisi, a Boston University biomedical engineering professor who, under President Ronald Reagan, conceived a project to sequence the human genome. -David Ho, a longtime AIDS researcher whose Aaron Diamong AIDS Research Center has published groundbreaking studies on the disease. -Irene Morgan, who was jailed in Gloucester, Virginia, in 1944 for failing to give her seat on a Greyhound bus to a white man. Her case led the Supreme Court to strike down segregated interstate transportation in 1946. -Helen Rodriquez-Trias, pediatrician and founder of the Latino Commission on AIDS in New York. -Rep. Edward Roybal, a Democrat from California. Past chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who advocated legislation for the rights of Hispanics, the elderly, the poor and disabled. -Robert Rubin, former Treasury secretary who presided over Clinton's economic policy from 1995 to 1999. -Ruff, who was also a former Watergate special prosecutor, U.S. attorney and corporation counsel for the District of Columbia. Ruff died in December 2000. -Rabbi Arthur Schneier, founder and president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, which is devoted to religious freedom and human rights issues worldwide. -Sengstacke, publisher and editor of the black-owned Chicago Defender and founder of the National Newspaper Publisher Association. Sengstacke died in May 1997. -The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the civil rights leader who brought Martin Luther King Jr. into efforts to integrate public facilities in Alabama and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. -Elizabeth Taylor, actress and co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research who has been a tireless advocate for AIDS research and prevention. -Marion Weisel, wife of Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel who wrote and narrated a documentary about the 1.3 million children who perished in the Holocaust.
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