as Chairman of The Business Council in 1981 and 1982. From 1982 to 1989, Wriston was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board. Awards and honors In 1987, the Manhattan Institute of Policy Research initiated a lecture series in honor of Wriston. In 2004 the Idea Channel organized a seven-part series of interviews with him. In June 2004 Wriston was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, by President George W. Bush. Personal life In 1942, Walter Wriston married Barbara Brengle, with whom he had one daughter. Two years after her death in 1966, he married lawyer and businesswoman Kathryn Dineen. Wriston died on January 19, 2005, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, at the age of 85. Legacy Wriston's papers, including the text of hundreds of speeches and articles spanning his lengthy career, are at Tufts University's Archives. Many have been digitized and are available in the Tufts Digital Library. Quotes Capital goes where it's welcome and stays where it's well treated. Information about money has become almost as important as money itself Countries don't go bust The 800 number and the piece of plastic have made time and space obsolete The Eurodollar market exists in London because people believe that the British government is not about to close it down It is inconceivable that any major bank would walk away from any subsidiary of its holding company. If your name is on the door, all of your capital funds are going to be behind it in the real world. Lawyers can say you have separation, but the marketplace is persuasive, and it would not see it that way. Books The Twilight of Sovereignty (1992) Risk and Other Four-Letter Words (1986) Bits, Bytes and Balance Sheets (2007) See also List of Chief Executives of Citigroup List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients References External links PBS Interview Walter B. Wriston Archives at Tufts University 1919 births 2005 deaths Wriston The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni Wesleyan University alumni New York (state) Republicans Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients