WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will receive the U.S. Military Academy’s annual Thayer Award.
The award to be given Monday at the historic academy is named for a former West Point superintendent and is given to citizens who serve the national interest.
Rice is a professor at Stanford University. She was President George W. Bush’s secretary of state from 2005 to 2009.
She will receive the award during a ceremony hosted by the academy’s Association of Graduates after cadets conduct a review in her honor.
Past recipients of the Thayer Award include Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Bob Hope, Neil Armstrong, Tom Brokaw and Colin Powell.
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