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Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award Recipients

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Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

2025

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Liberia and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

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Thomas R. Pickering

2022

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

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Jimmy Carter

2020

39th President of the United States of America

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William J. Perry

2017

19th U.S. Secretary of Defense

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Carla A. Hills

2014

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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Robert Gates

2011

Secretary of Defense

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Ryan C. Crocker

2008

Ambassador to Iraq

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Men and Women of the Foreign and Civil Service

2005

Accepted by Former Undersecretary R. Nicholas Burns

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Colin L. Powell

2002

Secretary of State

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Stuart Eizenstat

1999

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

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George F. Kennan

1997

Lifetime Contributions to Diplomacy

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General John Vessey

1994

President Emissary to Hanoi for missing American servicemen

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Vernon Walters

1991

Ambassador to Germany

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Ambassador Anne Patterson

2024

U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Colombia, Pakistan and Egypt and Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and for Near Eastern and African Affairs

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Foreign Service and Civil Service Personnel of the U.S. Government Who Served in the Viet Nam Evacuation

2021

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John Negroponte

2019

Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq

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Robert B. Zoellick

2016

Former World Bank Group President & U.S. Trade Representative

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George P. Shultz

2013

Secretary of State

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Harold Saunders

2010

Director of International Affairs, the Kettering Foundation

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Christopher Hill

2007

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

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Joseph J. Sisco

2004

Former Undersecretary of State

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Kofi Annan

2001

UN Secretary-General

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George Mitchell

1998

Peace Negotiations on Northern Ireland

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Richard Holbrooke

1996

Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia

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Robert Oakley

1993

Special Envoy to Somalia

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Rozanne L. Ridgway

1989

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs

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Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch

2023

Ambassador to Ukraine, Armenia, and Krygyz Republic

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All U.S. Government Personnel Engaged in the Evacuation of Afghanistan

2021

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James A. Baker, III

2018

13th and 19th White House Chief of Staff and 61st United States Secretary of State

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William J. Burns

2015

Under Secretary of State

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Richard G. Lugar

2012

Senator

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William Lacy Swing

2009

Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

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Max Kampelman

2006

Head of the United States Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms

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John Danforth

2003

Former Senator

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Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn

2000

Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

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Dennis Ross

1996

Special Middle East Coordinator

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Robert Gallucci

1995

Ambassador-at-Large; North Korean Negotiations

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Thomas R. Pickering

1990

Ambassador to the United Nations

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Stephen W. Bosworth

1988

Ambassador to the Phillippines

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