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Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush. After the ceremony, the 82-year-old lawyer and minister spoke with a reporter from the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "We bought the books; [young people] won't read them. We open the libraries; they won't use them.... When I get on that subject I do get fairly emotional because I remember how hard we fought to use the library. Now it's open and so ...