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Honors and recognition
Main article: List of honors and awards received by Bill Clinton
Various colleges and universities have awarded Clinton honorary degrees, including Doctorate of Law degrees[382][383] and Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.[384] He received an honorary degree from Georgetown University, his alma mater, and was the commencement speaker in 1980.[385] He is an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, although he did not complete his studies there.[386][387] Schools have been named for Clinton,[388][389][390] and statues have been built to pay him homage.[391][392] U.S. states where he has been honored include Missouri,[393] Arkansas,[394] Kentucky,[395] and New York.[396] He was presented with the Medal for Distinguished Public Service by Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 2001.[397] The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas, in his honor on December 5, 2001.[398]
He has been honored in various other ways, in countries that include the Czech Republic,[399] Papua New Guinea,[400] Germany,[401] and Kosovo.