Awards and Achievements
He received the George Washington Honor Medal of the Freedoms Foundation (presented to his popular radio commentary program, Rukeyser's World, which he ended when he left ABC in 1973) for "an outstanding accomplishment in helping to achieve a better understanding of America and Americans."
Mr. Rukeyser won a second Freedoms Foundation award in 1978 for his newspaper column, begun just two years earlier.
He was granted the first ever GW Loeb award for financial journalism given to a broadcaster.
In 1990 he became the first man to receive the Women's Economic Round Table award "for outstanding service in educating the public about business, financial and economic policy."
In 2000 he received the Financial Planning Association of New York's Malcolm S. Forbes Award for Excellence in Advancing Financial Understanding.
He received nine honorary doctorates for his work as the nation's No. 1 economic educator: from Johns Hopkins University, American University, Loyola College, Western Maryland College, Mercy College, Moravian College, Southeastern Massachusetts University, New Hampshire College and Roger Williams University.
The Fashion Foundation of America named him both the best-dressed man in finance and the most sartorially elegant host in America.
Playboy, acclaiming him in its own best-dressed list, said he was a "rakish raconteur" and a "personal-style knockout."
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