Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom

Winners

▶ Martin Luther King (1977), John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Warren Buffett, Muhammad Ali,  …

Harvey Milk, Jimmy Carter, Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Frank Sinatra, Walt Disney (1964), Audrey Hepburn (1992), Gerald Ford, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller (September 14th 1964), Lyndon B. Johnson, Dick Cheney, Neil Alden Armstrong, John Wayne (1980), Colin Powell, Bill Cosby (2002), Ted Kennedy (2009), Pope John Paul II (2004), Jackie Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Jesse Jackson (2000), Lucille Ball, Tony Blair, Doris Day (2004), Henry Kissinger, T. S. Eliot, Milton Friedman (1988), Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Alan Greenspan, Johnny Carson, James Stewart, Duke Ellington (1969), Harper Lee, Elie Wiesel, Thurgood Marshall (1993), Nancy Reagan (2002), Ella Fitzgerald, Jesse Owens, Sidney Poitier, Gregory Peck, Angela Merkel, Mister Rogers, Donald Rumsfeld, Joe DiMaggio, Marlene Dietrich, Juan Hamilton, César Estrada Chávez (1994), Bob Hope, Desmond Tutu, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hank Aaron, Sandra Day O'Connor (2009), Aung San Suu Kyi (2000), Barry Goldwater, Bob Dole, Carol Burnett, Billy Graham, Nelson Rockefeller, Buckminster Fuller, David Rockefeller (1998), Walter Cronkite (1981), Roberto Clemente (2003), Jacques-Yves Cousteau, William F. Buckley, Ansel Adams, Sam Walton, Paul Harvey, Bill Russell, Chuck Yeager, Ben Carson, Ted Williams, Danny Kaye, Billie Jean King, Hubert Humphrey, Aaron Copland, Julia Child (2003), James Cagney (1984), Yo-Yo Ma, John Howard, Peter Drucker, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lady Bird Johnson, Pope John XXIII, Robert McNamara (1968), Arthur Ashe, Jack Kemp, Omar Bradley, Earl Warren, Jim Lovell, Jonas Salk, George McGovern (2000), Rachel Carson, Irving Berlin, Margaret Mead, Muhammad Yunus, Edward R. Murrow, Jack Nicklaus, Wesley Clark, John Ford, John Wooden, Marian Anderson, Rita Moreno, Count Basie, John Kenneth Galbraith (1946), Paul Rusesabagina, Arnold Palmer, Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1984), Lech Wałęsa, Anwar Sadat, Bear Bryant, Simon Wiesenthal, Joseph Lowery, Rosalynn Carter, Carl Sandburg, Reinhold Niebuhr, Barbara Jordan, James Brady, James Baker, Martha Graham, Sargent Shriver, Edward Teller, Jimmy Doolittle, Vladimir Horowitz, Václav Havel (2004), I. M. Pei, George F. Kennan, Michael Collins, Lloyd Bentsen, David McCullough, John Foster Dulles, Andrew Young, Helmut Kohl (1999), Jack Swigert, Dave Thomas, Norman Vincent Peale, A. Philip Randolph, B.B. King, Brooke Astor, James L. Farmer (1998), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (2000), Warren Christopher, Tom Lantos, Tommy Franks, George Tenet, Warren E. Burger, Pearl Bailey, Helen Hayes, Mary Robinson, George Balanchine, Norman Schwarzkopf, Álvaro Uribe, Norman Borlaug, Edward Brooke (2004), Tip O'Neill, Gordon B. Hinckley, James A. Michener (January 10th 1977), C. Everett Koop, Dean Acheson, Kate Smith, Will Durant, Fred Haise, Frank Robinson, Byron White (2003), Edmund Muskie, Francis Collins, Gordon Moore, Louis L'Amour, Caspar Weinberger, Vint Cerf (2005), Felix Frankfurter (1963), Dean Rusk, Whittaker Chambers (1984), Samuel Goldwyn, Walter Annenberg, Eric Hoffer, Van Cliburn, George P. Shultz, Norman Mineta, Brent Scowcroft, Clare Boothe Luce, John Hope Franklin, Marian Wright Edelman (2000), David Brinkley, Martha Raye, Lewis Mumford (1964), L. Paul Bremer, Jean Monnet (1963), William J. Brennan (1993), Paul Johnson, Matthew Ridgway, Howard Baker, William Perry

Class

award, honour or prize

Related Websites

▶ http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Background-on-Medal-of-Freedom-ceremony, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061215-1.html#, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061215-1.html#, http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipients.htm, http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/jfkeo/eo/11085.htm,  …

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Rare Terms

▶ "presidential medal of freedom with special distinction", "the congressional medal of freedom", "congressional medal of freedom", "the united states medal of freedom", "united states medal of freedom",  …

"the medal of freedom"

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