The Dwight D. Eisenhower Service to Democracy Award

The Service to Democracy Award is presented to national leaders who exemplify President Eisenhower's founding principle when he established The American Assembly: "to reconcile divergent views in order to accomplish a common purpose."

2004
Richard "Dick" Lugar
U.S. Senator
Senator Dick Lugar at his award ceremony with Neville Isdell, Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola; Paul Volcker and Richard Fisher, American Assembly trustees.
Richard Green "Dick" Lugar is the senior United States Senator from Indiana and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1977, he is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and was its chairman from 1985 to 1987 and 2003 to 2007. Much of Lugar's work in the Senate is toward the dismantling of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world. Lugar is currently the third most senior senator and the most senior Republican member of the Senate.
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Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future
Published in 2010, this wide-ranging, pragmatic, and in-depth volume covers the persistently divisive issues surrounding race in America, with contributions from Angela Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor, Van Jones and Allen Crouch, among others. The authors address evolving and emerging topics such as the future of work and metropolitan communities, immigrant integration, and effective educational structures.