team to work like tireless bloodhounds. Don't leave any stone unturned in your search to root out inefficiency. Grace, a Democrat, was asked what he would say to the campaign theme of Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic Presidential candidate, that higher taxes would be required to ease the deficit regardless of who wins the November election. "I'd tell him he's nuts," Grace said. "He's wrong. He's wrong." Awards and memberships In 1967, he was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame. In 1984, Grace received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." That year, he also received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards, and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Grace was a leader in the American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Grace was a member of the conservative American organization the Council for National Policy. References External links J. Peter Grace – SourceWatch W. R. Grace & Co. (grace.com) 1913 births 1995 deaths American polo players American Roman Catholics American people of Irish descent Knights of Malta Businesspeople from New York (state) Yale University alumni New York (state) Democrats Laetare Medal recipients People from Manhasset, New York 20th-century American businesspeople