Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Awards And Accomplishments
| 1973 | Receives Legion of Honor, Lasker Award, Humanitarian Award A.A. M.D |
| 1973 | Receives National Volunteer Service Award |
| 1973 | Receives Philadelphia Civic Ballet Award |
| 1974 | Awarded Prix de Couronne Francais |
| 1984 | Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1993 | Receives Freedom From Want Medal from Roosevelt Institute |
| 1995 | Becomes the first living American woman to be portrayed on United States legal tender: the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games silver commemorative coin |
| 1998 | Inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY |
| 1998 | Awarded Aetna Voice of Conscience® Award |
| 1999 | Receives Juanita Kreps Award |
| 2000 | Recognized at the inaugural Laureus Sports Awards with the Sport for Good Award |
| 2000 | Presented with the Noel Foundation Life award |
| 2000 | Awarded with the Greater Washington D.C. Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Humanitarian Award |
| 2000 | Receives the Phoenix Foundation for Children Champion of Children Award |
| 2001 | Awarded an Honorary Degree from the Cardinal Strich University |
| 2002 | Receives the Theodore Roosevelt Award from the National Collegiate Athletic Association |
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