Morgan: You have received many honors and different kinds of recognition in your life; how does the center being named for you stack up against those?
Franklin: Well, it ranks at the very top. There aren't many experiences or indications of esteem or recognition that would get beyond that. I guess the honorary degrees are what they are and there are many of them. I cherish every one of them, more than 130. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is wonderful. And I couldn't begin to name the recognitions and all of the things. But to name a program for me, a very enlightened, visionary program that will bring together scholars from all over the world that will attempt to focus on some of the great problems of our time in an effort to solve them … recognizing the global nature of some of them, recognizing the significance of them for the future, and to tie my name to this effort is something that I'm not sure that I deserve. But I hope to be worthy of it.
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