Sylvanus Thayer Award
2009 H. Ross Perot • speech • brief biography • video autobiography
2008 William J. Perry • article • biography
2007 General (Retired) Frederick Kroesen • speech • article • biography
2006 Tom Brokaw • speech • article • biography
2005 Justice Sandra Day O´Connor • speech • article • biography
2004 Senator Robert J. Dole • speech • article
2003 General (Retired) Gordon R. Sullivan • speech • article
2002 The American Soldier • speeches at the awards banquet
2001 The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye • acceptance speech
2000 Henry A. Kissinger • acceptance speech
1999 Norman R. Augustine • acceptance speech
1998 General Colin L. Powell • acceptance speech • biography
1997 Walter Cronkite • acceptance speech
1996 General John W. Vessey, Jr. • acceptance speech
1995 Barbara Jordan • acceptance speech • biography
1994 Former President George 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 Former 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
1967 Francis Cardinal 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 • audio
1961 General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960 The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge
1959 The Honorable John Foster Dulles
1958 Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence