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Sylvanus Thayer Award Recipients

2022  Mr. Kenneth Fisher • biography

2021  Doctor Mae C. Jemison • biography

2020  Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker • speechbiography

2019  General (R) Ann Dunwoody • speech • biography

2018  The Honorable Leon E. Panetta • speech • biography

2017  President George W. Bush • speech • biography

2016  The Honorable Robert S. Mueller • speech • biography

2015  Mr. Gary Sinise • speech • biography • photos

2014  The Honorable Condoleezza Rice • speech • biography • photos

2013  The Honorable Madeleine Korbel Albright • speech • biography • video

2012  The Honorable Isaac Newton "Ike" Skelton • speech • biography

2011  Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates • speech • biography

2010  Honorable James A. Baker, III • speech • biography • photos

2009  Mr. H. Ross Perot  speech biography  photos

2008  The Honorable William J. Perry • article • biography

2007  General (R) Frederick Kroesen • speech • article • biography

2006  Mr. Thomas Brokaw • speech • article • biography

2005  Justice Sandra Day O´Connor • speech • article •  biography

2004  Senator Robert J. Dole • speech • article

2003  General (R) Gordon R. Sullivan • speech • article

2002  The American Soldier • speeches at the awards banquet 

2001  The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye • acceptance speech

2000  Dr. Henry A. Kissinger • acceptance speech

1999  Mr. Norman R. Augustine • acceptance speech

1998  General (R) Colin L. Powell • acceptance speech • biography

1997  Mr. Walter Cronkite • acceptance speech

1996  General (R) John W. Vessey, Jr. • acceptance speech

1995  Professor Barbara Jordan • acceptance speech • biography

1994  President George H.W. Bush

1993  The Honorable Cyrus R. Vance

1992  The Honorable George P. Shultz

1991  The Honorable Paul H. Nitze

1990  The Honorable Michael J. Mansfield

1989  President Ronald Reagan

1988  The Honorable Warren E. Burger

1987  The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater

1986  Dr. Edward Teller

1985  The Honorable Frank Pace, Jr.

1984  The Honorable Stanley R. Resor

1983  Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle

1982  Mr. David Packard

1981  Mr. James E. Webb

1980  Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

1979  The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce

1978  Dr. James R. Killian, Jr.

1977  The Honorable Robert T. Stevens

1976  The Honorable Gordon Gray

1975  Governor W. Averell Harriman

1974  The Honorable Robert D. Murphy

1973  General of the Army Omar N. Bradley

1972  Dr. William F. Graham

1971  Mr. Neil A. Armstrong

1970  The Honorable Ellsworth Bunker

1969  The Honorable Dean Rusk

1968  Mr. Bob Hope • acceptance speech

1967  Cardinal Francis Spellman

1966  The Honorable Carl Vinson

1965  Dr. James B. Conant

1964  The Honorable Robert A. Lovett

1963  The Honorable John J. McCloy 

1962  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur •  acceptance speech • Video montage

1961  President Dwight David Eisenhower

1960  The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge

1959  The Honorable John Foster Dulles

1958  Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence