Obama to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16
source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-us-obama-medaloffree,0,7816242.story
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President Barack Obama is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people.
The White House announced the list of recipients Thursday.
The medals, representing the nation's highest honor for a civilian, are the first to be awarded by Obama. He will present them at a White House ceremony on Aug. 12.
The 16 recipients are:
--Nancy Brinker
--Pedro Jose Greer Jr.
--Stephen Hawking
--Former Republican Rep. Jack Kemp of New York
--Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
--Billie Jean King
--Rev. Joseph Lowery
--Joe Medicine Crow
--Harvey Milk
--Sandra Day O'Connor
--Sidney Poitier
--Chita Rivera
--Mary Robinson
--Janet Davison Rowley
--Desmond Tutu
--Muhammad Yunus
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President Bush awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to three white men central to his Iraq policy in 2004. Gen. Tommy Franks, who oversaw combat in Afghanistan and the initial invasion of Iraq, former CIA Director George Tenet, who called the intelligence on which the war in Iraq was based on, "a slam dunk", and L. Paul Bremer, the former Iraq administrator during the post invasion phrase of the war, which was a complete failure.
The White House announced the list of recipients Thursday.
The medals, representing the nation's highest honor for a civilian, are the first to be awarded by Obama. He will present them at a White House ceremony on Aug. 12.
The 16 recipients are:
--Nancy Brinker
--Pedro Jose Greer Jr.
--Stephen Hawking
--Former Republican Rep. Jack Kemp of New York
--Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
--Billie Jean King
--Rev. Joseph Lowery
--Joe Medicine Crow
--Harvey Milk
--Sandra Day O'Connor
--Sidney Poitier
--Chita Rivera
--Mary Robinson
--Janet Davison Rowley
--Desmond Tutu
--Muhammad Yunus
Click link for info about recipients
President Bush awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to three white men central to his Iraq policy in 2004. Gen. Tommy Franks, who oversaw combat in Afghanistan and the initial invasion of Iraq, former CIA Director George Tenet, who called the intelligence on which the war in Iraq was based on, "a slam dunk", and L. Paul Bremer, the former Iraq administrator during the post invasion phrase of the war, which was a complete failure.
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