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President's Cabinet Award

1976

Bio:

Served as the first CEO of American Motors; Republican Governor of Michigan from 1962-1970.

Citation:

Three times Governor of the State of Michigan, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Chief Executive of a major automobile manufacturer, your career has been a uniquely successful mixture of leadership in the public and private sectors of American life.  As businessman, private citizen and government executive, you have been the extraordinary example of the courage, integrity and faith in God that have characterized the best men this nation has produced.

It is with great pleasure that I present to you this citation and medal and I hereby declare you recipient of the President's Cabinet Award.

University of Detroit

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