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...Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University and former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will be this year's principal Commencement speaker...
...Hesburgh, an ordained priest who holds 17 honorary degrees from universities throughout the nation, has spent his life working on religious, educational and social problems...
Among the diverse organizations on which Hesburgh has served are the Carnegie Foundation Commission on Higher Education, the Vatican's Atomic Energy Agency, and the U.S. Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force...
...former President Johnson awarded Hesburgh the presidential medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor...
Others would be people like W.H. Auden, William O. Douglas, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Earl Warren, Lady Bird Johnson, one of the Berrigan brothers, Ramsey Clark, Sissy Farenthold or Joseph Biden, the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate...