The other recipients are Carol Burnett , Aretha Franklin and Andy Griffith , the entertainers ; the historian Robert Conquest ; Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn , designers of software code ; Paul Harvey , the radio personality ; former Representative Sonny Montgomery , Democrat of Mississippi ; Gen. Richard B. Myers of the Air Force , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ; Jack Nicklaus and Frank Robinson , the athletes ; and Paul Rusesabagina , who sheltered hundreds of people in hotel rooms in 1994 during the genocide in Rwanda .