Honors
When he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, the citation read:
- For over half a century, as a journalist, author, and teacher, Vermont Royster illuminated the political and economic life of our times. His common sense exploded the pretensions of "expert opinion," and his compelling eloquence warned of the evils of society loosed from its moorings in faith. The voice of the American people can be heard in his prose—honest, open, proud, and free.
Other awards he received include Distinguished Service Award, Sigma Delta Chi, 1958; William Allen White Award, University of Kansas, 1971; Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, 1975; Elijah Lovejoy Award 1976; North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame, 1980.
In 1976, Royster received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.
Several of the editorials he wrote are considered classics: The Desolate Wilderness along with And the Fair Land are now the Wall Street Journal's traditional Thanksgiving editorials, and In Hoc Anno Domini appears every Christmas.
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