1973
Earl Warren
(United States Chief Justice)
1974
Thomas F. Eagleton
(United States Senator)
1975
Louis W. Truman
(Lt. General, United States Army)
1976
Clarence M. Kelley
(Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1977
Gerald R. Ford
(Vice President & President)
1978
Nelson A. Rockefeller
(Governor & Vice President)
1979
David M. Noyes
(Truman Advisor)
1979
Omar N. Bradley
(General, United States Army)
1979
Hyman G. Rickover
(Admiral, United States Navy)
1980
W. Averell Harriman
(Governor & Diplomat)
1981
Eric Sevareid
(Journalist)
1982
Barry M. Goldwater
(United States Senator)
1983
Dr. Jonas Salk
(Scientist)
1984
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
(United States Ambassador to the United Nations)
1985
Kenneth D. Taylor
(Canadian Ambassador to Iran 1977-1980)
1986
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
(Speaker, U.S. House Of Representatives)
1987
Elliot L. Richardson
(Cabinet Member)
1988
Paul Volcker
(Chairman, Federal Reserve System)
1989
Howard H. Baker, Jr.
(United States Senator,
White House Chief of Staff)
1990
Robert MacNeil
& Jim Lehrer
(Journalists)
1991
Ewing M. Kauffman
(Businessman and Philanthropist)
1992
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
(Historian, Writer, Educator)
1993
David McCullough
(Historian and Biographer)
1994
John C. Danforth
(United States Senator)
1995
Rev. Robert H. Meneilly
(Pastor Emeritus, Village Presbyterian Church)
1996
Bill Mauldin
(World War II Cartoonist)
1997
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker
(United States Senator)
1998
Tom Clancy
(Writer)
Frederick M. Franks, Jr.
(General, United States Army)
1999
John Hope Franklin
(Historian)
2000
H.Norman Schwarzkopf
(General, United States Army)
2001
Bob Dole
(United States Senator)
2002
Buzz Aldrin
(Astronaut & Futurist)
2003
Brian Lamb
(Chairman & CEO, CSPAN)
2004
Walter Cronkite
(News Correspondent & Journalist)
2005
Sandra Day O'Connor (Supreme Court Justice)
2006
Richard Meyers
(General, United States Army)
2007
George J. Mitchell (United States
Senator)
