Hillary Clinton to Receive Four Freedoms Award

Yet another well-deserved honor:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former first lady and, until early this year, the junior U.S. senator from New York, will receive the 2009 Four Freedoms Award from the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

William J. Vanden Heuvel, founder and chairman emeritus of the institute, confirmed Saturday night Clinton would receive the award at a ceremony Sept. 11 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

“We think Hillary Clinton has one of the most extraordinary public careers we have seen in some time,” he said. “We are not just honoring her as secretary of state, but as the former first lady and senator from New York. As secretary of state, she has shown the wisdom and judgment to handle difficult questions of foreign affairs.”

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The Four Freedoms honors are based on President Franklin D. Roosevelt famous 1941 speech during which he outlined the four fundamental freedoms for people everywhere.

A little more info. about the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute:

Since its formation in 1987, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute has been devoted to informing new generations of the ideals and achievements of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Through programs, events, and publications, the Institute has made lessons of the past relevant for understanding today’s challenges, with a recognition that some Roosevelt priorities – whether FDR’s Four Freedoms or Eleanor Roosevelt’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights – are as relevant today as when they were first conceived. The Institute has pursued much of this mission in close partnership with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.