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William C. Friday receives the National Humanities Medal
President Clinton and Hillary Clinton presented Friday with one of the first National Humanities Medals. The NEH cited him as president emeritus of the University of North Carolina, which he led from 1956 to 1986, and executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trusts.
People: Bill Clinton
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall receives the National Humanities Medal
President Clinton presented Hall with a National Humanities Medal as founder and director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program and a scholar of the New South.
People: Bill Clinton
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Jesse Jackson receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesse Jackson at a White House ceremony.
People: Bill Clinton
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