LIBERTY MEDAL Recipients

Recipients of the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, which was first awarded in 1989.
2006, former U.S. presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
2005, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
2004, Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
2003, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
2002, U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
2000, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick.
1999, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
1998, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, chairman of the 1998 Northern Ireland peace talks.
1997, CNN International.
1996, former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein.
1995, Sadako Ogata, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
1994, Czech President Vaclav Havel.
1993, South Africa leaders F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.
1992, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
1991, Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and the French medical and human rights organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
1990, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1989, Polish President Lech Walesa.
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