The Honorable Sol Linowitz (1913 - 2005) was a businessman, lawyer and diplomat who moved with ease from the corporate boardroom to the international stage, winning an enviable reputation for integrity in both spheres. Born to immigrant Jewish parents in Trenton, N.J. Sol Linowitz worked his way through college during the Great Depression, graduating Phi Beta Kappa form Hamilton College, before graduating first in his class from Cornell University Law School. He rose to the Chairmanship of Xerox Corporation in its early days of spectacular growth. By 1966, the little company had become one of the 12 largest corporations in the United States with $4.5 billion in market value, and Sol Linowitz devoted msuch of the rest of his career to public service. President Lyndon Johnson's named him to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States. In 1976, President Jimmy Carter called on him to negotiate the Panama Canal Treaties. He later became President Carter's Personal Representative for Middle East Negotiations from 1979 to 1981. In the 1980s, Ambassador Linowitz was Co-Chairman of the National Urban Coalition and served on innumerable corporate and university boards. ON his later years, he was a senior partner of the international law firm Coudert Brothers in Washington. D.C. A forceful advocate of higher ethical standard for the legal profession, he wrote two books, The Making of a Public Man, and The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the 20th Century. He received the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Bill Clinton in 1998. In this podcast, recorded at the Academy of Achievement's 1992 Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, he discussed America's role in the world as a champion of democracy, freedom, and justice. He urged the Academy's student delegates to stand up for human rights, and to fight intolerance, hatred, and discrimination.