“This is the highest honor I have received since 60-some years ago, when Angel said "I do."”

—  Paul Harvey

On how much his wife "Angel" meant to him, just before receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House (9 November 2005), as quoted in "Paul Harvey's Wife Dies at Age 92" in ABC News (4 May 2008) http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4780941.

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