On October 4, 1996, the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received the Henry Clay Medallion from the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation in Lexington. She also served as a National Advisor to the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship. During her 1996 visit to Kentucky, Justice O’Connor spoke of Henry Clay’s career at a dinner in her honor at the Governor’s Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. Read an excerpt from her speech.
