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Leonard Lauder Leads Parade of Honorees
Leonard A. Lauder knows the value of seeing eye to eye.
In accepting the Corporate Leadership Award last week from the Aspen Institute an organization devoted to education and finding common ground among world-class intellects, often from diverse fields Lauder described his first meeting at the institute in 1978. It changed my life, said the chairman emeritus of the Este Lauder Cos., Inc., and opened the door to wisdom. I learned there was new life out there.
And, for good measure, he had some friendly advice to pass on to Washington. During a panel discussion moderated by ABC anchor Christiane Amanpour as part of the awards ceremony at The Plaza hotel Thursday evening, Lauder said, If I were president of the U.S., I would call the leaders of...