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 * Response Haymaker is entitled to hold a well-known POV, but I am also entitled to refute that editor's factual errors.  Haymaker calls most of the recipients "unknowns".  The fact is that 56 awards have been given, mostly to individuals but also to a few organizations.  Of these, 34 (or 60%) are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles, and these "unknowns" include a U.S. president, a Supreme Count justice, several members of Congress, a governor, John D. Rockefeller III, Martin Luther King Jr., Dear Abby, Ann Landers, Jihan Sadat and movie stars including Katherine Hepburn and Jane Fonda.  These recipients and many others are hardly "unknowns".  Haymaker also states "the award seems to be poorly known", despite it being described in detail by many newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Toledo Blade, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Miami News, Jet magazine, and also by pro-life opponents of Planned Parenthood such as the Weekly Standard, which roundly criticized Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for accepting the award in 2009.