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Article: Pres. Hinckley gets citizen award
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2007
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LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley read "1776" and "John
Adams" cover to cover, but he only skimmed another best-seller by
historian David McCullough, the 1,000-page Pulitzer Prize-winning
biography of Harry Truman.
"At my age of 97," President Hinckley joked Wednesday with
McCullough, "I cannot afford to read anything that long."
McCullough joined additional luminaries and nearly 1,400 others
crammed elbow-to-elbow into a downtown hotel ballroom to honor
President Hinckley with the Municipal Citizen of the Century Award
for his decades of work building bridges in Utah's communities.
The Utah League of Cities and Towns presented the award on the
first day of a three-day conference ...