President Reagan presents the Medal of Liberty, an award Wolper created for the show, to Bob Hope, Henry Kissinger, Itzhak Perlman and nine other immigrant citizens. On Ellis Island, retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger inducts 20,000 new citizens via satellite. Elizabeth Taylor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kenny Rogers and Frank Sinatra perform. Then Reagan lights the Lady's torch to the tune of The Stars and Stripes Forever.
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