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Detailed explanation-1: -Previous recipients of the award (in other categories) include former US Vice-president Richard Cheney, US Secretary of State Rex W Tillerson as well as four former US Secretaries of State-Henry Kissinger, General (rtd) Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship is given to those executives who, by their examples and their business practices, have shown a deep concern for the common good beyond the bottom line.

Detailed explanation-3: -President Woodrow Wilson of the United States won the Peace Prize for 1919 as the leading architect behind the League of Nations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”