Other new recipients are:

--Lloyd M. Bentsen, Clinton's first Treasury secretary who served 22 years in the Senate and six years in the House. He was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 1988.

--Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress. He has "worked to insure basic rights for Jews around the world and to fight anti-Semitism and has spearheaded the effort to retrieve the assets of Holocaust victims and their families," according to the White House tribute.

--Evy Dubrow, an advocate for more than 50 years of laws to improve domestic labor conditions. "She has been influential in numerous causes, including broadening laws against discrimination and protecting American industry from unfair foreign competition," the tribute said.

--Sister M. Isolina Ferre, founder of community service centers, clinics and programs to empower the poor in Puerto Rico, New York and Appalachia. She gained international recognition in the late 1950s and 1960s for her mediation efforts with youth gangs in Brooklyn.

--Oliver White Hill, civil rights lawyer. He is best known for litigating one of the school desegregation cases that became the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case.

--Max Kampelman, lawyer, diplomat and negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. "In those roles, he emphasized human rights in East-West diplomacy and prepared the foundation for long-term arms reductions between the United States and the Soviet Union," the tribute said.

--Wire dispatches were used in the reporting of this story.