Bill Clinton

==Honors and recognition==

{{Main|List of honors and awards received by Bill Clinton}}
[[File:Bill clinton medal of freedom.jpg|thumb|Clinton receiving the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from [[Barack Obama]]]]

Various colleges and universities have awarded Clinton honorary degrees, including [[Legum Doctor|Doctorate of Law]] degrees<ref>{{cite web | url=http://faccoun.unc.edu/awards/honorary-degrees | title=Honorary Degrees | year=1993 | publisher=UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Faculty Governance | access-date=August 31, 2011 | archive-date=February 9, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209142252/http://faccoun.unc.edu/awards/honorary-degrees/ | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tulane.edu/newwave/cornerpics/051906_grads.html |title=President Bill Clinton with an honorary doctorate of law |publisher=Tulane University |date=May 19, 2006 |access-date=August 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808192350/http://www.tulane.edu/newwave/cornerpics/051906_grads.html |archive-date=August 8, 2011 }}</ref> and [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] degrees.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=45649 | title=Clinton to address graduates, Honorary doctorate will be bestowed | publisher=RIT News, Rochester Institute of Technology | date=May 18, 2007 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> He received an honorary degree from Georgetown University, his alma mater, and was the commencement speaker in 1980.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hughes|first=Tracey|date=May 24, 1980|title=GU Honors Statesmen, Scientists, Educators|work=[[The Hoya]]|url=https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/555085/1980-05-24.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|access-date=September 22, 2021}}</ref> He is an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford, which he attended as a [[Rhodes Scholar]], although he did not complete his studies there.<ref>{{cite news |first=Matthew |last=Hoffman |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-bill-clinton-we-knew-at-oxford-apart-from-smoking-dope-and-not-inhaling-what-else-did-he-learn-1556769.html |title=The Bill Clinton we knew at Oxford: Apart from smoking dope (and not inhaling), what else did he learn over here? College friends share their memories with Matthew Hoffman |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623195343/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-bill-clinton-we-knew-at-oxford-apart-from-smoking-dope-and-not-inhaling-what-else-did-he-learn-1556769.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/content/honorary-fellows |title=www.univ.ox.ac.uk |publisher=University of Oxford |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313140432/http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/content/honorary-fellows |archive-date=March 13, 2016 }}</ref> Schools have been named for Clinton,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.compton.k12.ca.us/www/schoolsites/showschool.aspx?id=13900 | title=Clinton Elementary | publisher=Compton Unified School District | access-date=August 31, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927162333/http://www.compton.k12.ca.us/www/schoolsites/showschool.aspx?id=13900 | archive-date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lausd.net/Clinton_MS | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719002854/http://www.lausd.net/Clinton_MS/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 19, 2011 | title=William Jefferson Clinton Middle School | publisher=Los Angeles Unified School District | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.clintonschool.uasys.edu | title=Clinton School of Public service | publisher=University of Arkansas | access-date=August 31, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720063224/http://clintonschool.uasys.edu/ | archive-date=July 20, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and statues have been built to pay him homage.<ref name=WJCstatue>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8336789.stm | title=Kosovo unveils Clinton's statue | work=BBC News | date=November 1, 2009 | access-date=November 2, 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091102101327/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8336789.stm| archive-date= November 2, 2009 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-serbia-kosovo-clinton-idUSL2316200920070523 | title=Kosovo to honor Bill Clinton with statue | work=Reuters | date=May 23, 2007 | access-date=September 11, 2011 | archive-date=August 5, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805022616/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/05/23/us-serbia-kosovo-clinton-idUSL2316200920070523 | url-status=live }}</ref> U.S. states where he has been honored include Missouri,<ref name="DeMolay-1">{{cite web|url=http://www.demolay.org/aboutdemolay/halloffame.php |title=DeMolay Hall of Fame |publisher=DeMolay International |access-date=August 25, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100905133239/http://www.demolay.org/aboutdemolay/halloffame.php |archive-date=September 5, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Arkansas,<ref>{{Cite news | last=Purdum | first=Todd S. | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/us/campaign-season-another-first-for-clinton.html | title=Campaign Season; Another First for Clinton | work=The New York Times | date=October 17, 2002 | access-date=August 6, 2009}}</ref> Kentucky,<ref name="HOOKC">{{cite web | url=http://kycolonels.org/index.cgi?id=54 | title=Colonels website | publisher=Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels | access-date=December 21, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625033818/http://kycolonels.org/index.cgi?id=54 | archive-date=June 25, 2009 }}</ref> and New York.<ref>{{cite news | last=Dunlap | first=David | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/nyregion/23rebuild.html | title=Pataki Offers Peek at 9/11 Memorial Progress | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=November 23, 2004 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> He was presented with the [[Medal for Distinguished Public Service]] by [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[William Cohen]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=3174 | title=Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen presents the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service to President Bill Clinton in a ceremonial farewell at Fort Myer, Va., on Jan. 5, 2001. | publisher=U.S. Department of Defense | access-date=September 1, 2011}}</ref> The [[Clinton Presidential Center]] was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas, in his honor on December 5, 2001.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/28/us/dinner-for-a-presidential-library-contributions-welcome.html | title=Dinner for a Presidential Library, Contributions Welcome | date=June 28, 1999 | last=Van Natta | first=Don Jr. | work=The New York Times | access-date=December 17, 2009}}</ref>

He has been honored in various other ways, in countries that include the Czech Republic,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://old.hrad.cz/kpr/rady/rbl_lide_uk.html | title=List of Individuals Awarded the Order of the White Lion | publisher=Old.hrad.cz | date=October 13, 2005 | access-date=August 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Willoughby|first=Ian| url=https://english.radio.cz/enlargement-a-good-investment-clinton-tells-prague-nato-conference-8811085| title=Enlargement "a good investment", Clinton tells Prague NATO conference | work=[[Czech Radio]]| date=March 12, 2024 | access-date=March 12, 2024}}</ref> Papua New Guinea,<ref>{{Cite news | title=It's now 'Chief' Bill Clinton | work=United Press International | date=December 3, 2006 | url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/12/03/Its-now-Chief-Bill-Clinton/UPI-99431165188768 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> Germany,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.karlspreis.de/index.php?id=12&doc=42 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206203817/http://www.karlspreis.de/index.php?id=12&doc=42 | archive-date=February 6, 2008 | title=International Prize of the city of Aachen (German)}}</ref> and Kosovo.<ref name=WJCstatue /> The Republic of Kosovo, in gratitude for his help during the [[Kosovo War]], renamed a major street in the capital city of [[Pristina]] as [[Bill Clinton Boulevard]] and added a monumental Clinton statue.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/statue-watch-bill-clinton-edition | title=Statue Watch: Bill Clinton Edition | first=Mike | last=Nizza | date=May 23, 2007 | work=The New York Times | access-date=October 8, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/world/europe/17kosovo.html | title=Kosovo Struggles to Forge an Identity | first=Dan | last=Bilefsky | date=December 17, 2007 | work = [[The New York Times]] | access-date=October 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/world/europe/09iht-kosovo.1.8653760.html | title=Kosovo: Forging an identity on eve of new era | first=Dan | last=Bilefsky | date=December 9, 2007 | work = [[The New York Times]] | access-date=October 8, 2012}}</ref>

Clinton was selected as ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'s}} "[[Time Person of the Year|Man of the Year]]" in 1992,<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19930104,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070530071708/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19930104,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 30, 2007 | title=Bill Clinton, Man of the Year | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | author=Elizabeth P. Valk | date=January 4, 1993 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> and again in 1998, along with [[Ken Starr]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19981228,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070114194210/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19981228,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 14, 2007 | title=Kenneth Starr & Bill Clinton, Men of the Year | newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | first=Nancy | last=Gibbs | date=December 28, 1998 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in [[Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century]].<ref>{{cite book | title = The Gallup Poll 1999 | url = https://archive.org/details/galluppollcumula0000gall | url-access = registration | publisher=Scholarly Resources Inc | year = 1999 | location = Wilmington, Del. | pages = [https://archive.org/details/galluppollcumula0000gall/page/248 248–249]}}</ref> In 2001, Clinton received the [[NAACP]]'s [[NAACP Image Award – President's Award|President's Award]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Braxton |first=Greg |date=March 4, 2001 |title=NAACP Honors, Cheers Clinton |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-04-me-33265-story.html |access-date=February 28, 2022 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> He has also been honored with a [[Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children]], a J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding,<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-506513 | title=President Bill Clinton Biography | author=AmericaLive | work=CNN |date =October 22, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151004095341/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-506513|archive-date=October 4, 2015}}</ref> a [[TED (conference)|TED]] Prize (named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2007/04/2007_ted_prize__2.html | title=2007 TED Prize winner Bill Clinton on TEDTalks | publisher=TED Blog | date=April 4, 2007 | access-date=August 31, 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728122424/http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2007/04/2007_ted_prize__2.html | archive-date=July 28, 2011 }}</ref> and was named as an Honorary [[GLAAD Media Award]] recipient for his work as an advocate for the LGBT community.<ref name="24-GLAAD-LA">{{cite web | url=http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/losangeles | title=24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards—Los Angeles | publisher=[[GLAAD]] | access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref>

In 2011, President [[Michel Martelly]] of Haiti awarded Clinton with the [[National Order of Honour and Merit]] to the rank of Grand Cross "for his various initiatives in Haiti and especially his high contribution to the reconstruction of the country after the earthquake of January 12, 2010". Clinton declared at the ceremony that "in the United States of America, I really don't believe former American presidents need awards anymore, but I am very honored by this one, I love Haiti, and I believe in its promise".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3429-haiti-social-bill-clinton-receives-the-national-order-of-honor-and-merit-to-the-rank-grand-cross-gold-plated.html |title=Haiti—Social: Bill Clinton receives the National Order of Honor and Merit to the rank Grand Cross gold plated |editor=Press |date=July 22, 2011 |publisher=Haiti Libre |access-date=March 14, 2016}}</ref>

U.S. president Barack Obama awarded Clinton the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] on November 20, 2013.<ref name="Medal of Honor">{{cite news |first1=David |last1=Jackson  | title=Obama awards Medal of Freedom to Clinton, Oprah, others | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/20/obama-clinton-oprah-winfrey-dean-smith-ernie-banks/3650113 | work=[[USA Today]]| date=November 20, 2013 | access-date=November 20, 2013}}</ref>
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