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John F. Kennedy selected 31 recipients to be awarded in 1963. After his assassination they were officially awarded by Lyndon B. Johnson.
George F. Kennan was an American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II. Upon graduation from Princeton in 1925, Kennan entered the foreign service.
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In 1989, President George H. W. Bush awarded Kennan the Medal of Freedom, the nation's greatest civilian honor.
May 23, 2018 · Honor and recognition culminated in 1989, when President George Bush (1924–; served 1989–93; see entry) awarded Kennan the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In the late 1990s, Kennan, by then in his nineties, continued to write and comment on U.S. history.
Mar 1, 2007 · The second volume, Sketches from a Life, was published in 1989, the same year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. To Kennan, understanding Russia's past was key to understanding its future, and he considered himself a historian, said David Engerman, an associate professor of history at Brandeis University.
Mar 17, 2005 · In 1989, Pres. George H. W. Bush awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Yet, he remained a realist critic of recent U.S. presidents, urging, in particular, the U.S. government to "withdraw from its public advocacy of democracy and human rights."
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During his tenure at the Institute, Professor Kennan was the recipient twice of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his books Russia Leaves the War, Vol. I of Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920 (1956) and Memoirs, 1925-1950 (1967).
