Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States, considered the equivalent of the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. It is designed to recognize individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, or to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
Notable recipients
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- Hank Aaron
- Dean Acheson
- Ansel Adams
- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- Marian Anderson
- Arnold Aronson
- Apollo 11 Mission Controllers
- Apollo 13 Mission Controllers
- Arthur Ashe
- Brooke Astor
- Pearl Bailey
- James Baker
- George Balanchine
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Lucille Ball
- Robert L. Bartley
- Jacques Barzun
- Lloyd M. Bentsen
- Moe Berg (Although he rejected it)
- Irving Berlin
- Earl Blaik
- Tony Blair
- Herb Block
- Omar Bradley
- James Brady
- Paul Bremer
- David Brinkley
- Edgar M. Bronfman, Jr.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Warren Burger
- Edward W. Brooke
- James Cagney
- Johnny Carson
- Rachel Carson
- Jimmy Carter
- Rosalynn Carter
- Whittaker Chambers
- César Chávez
- Richard Cheney
- Julia Child
- Wesley Clark
- Roberto Clemente
- Van Cliburn
- Robert Coles
- Michael Collins (astronaut)
- Aaron Copland
- Bill Cosby
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Walter Cronkite
- John P. Davies
- Doris Day
- Horacio de la Costa
- C. Douglas Dillon
- Joe DiMaggio
- Walt Disney
- Bob Dole
- Plácido Domingo
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Kirk Douglas
- Peter Drucker
- Evelyn Dubrow
- Will Durant
- T.S. Eliot
- Duke Ellington
- James L. Farmer Jr.
- Dante B. Fascell
- Sor Isolina Ferré
- Don Luis A. Ferré
- Zachary Fisher
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Betty Ford
- Gerald Ford
- John Ford
- Tommy Franks
- William Fulbright
- Buckminster Fuller
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Billy Graham
- Martha Graham
- Vartan Gregorian
- Gilbert M. Grosvenor
- Václav Havel
- Helen Hayes
- Audrey Hepburn
- Frances Hesselbein
- Charlton Heston
- Oliver White Hill
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- Eric Hoffer
- Sidney Hook
- Bob Hope
- Hubert Humphrey
- Jesse Jackson
- Pope John XXIII
- Pope John Paul II
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Barbara Jordan
- Max Kampelman
- Danny Kaye
- Helen Keller
- Gene Kelly
- John F. Kennedy
- George F. Kennan
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Henry Kissinger
- Helmut Kohl
- C. Everett Koop
- Fred Korematsu
- Eugene Lang
- Estée Lauder
- Sol M. Linowitz
- Nelson Mandela
- Wilma Mankiller
- Luis Muñoz Marín
- Thurgood Marshall
- George McGovern
- Robert S. McNamara
- James Michener
- Rita Moreno
- Mother Teresa
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Lewis Mumford
- Margaret Murie
- Edward R. Murrow
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański
- Mario G. Obledo
- Tip O'Neill
- Paul Nitze
- Jesse Owens
- Arnold Palmer
- Antonia Pantojas
- Pope Paul VI
- Rosa Parks
- Arnall Patz
- Norman Vincent Peale
- Gregory Peck
- I.M. Pei
- William Perry
- Roger Tory Peterson
- Norman Podhoretz
- Colin Powell
- Nancy Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
- Elliot L. Richardson
- Hyman Rickover
- Jackie Robinson
- David Rockefeller
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Norman Rockwell
- Fred Rogers
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Anwar Sadat
- Jonas Salk
- Carl Sandburg
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
- Albert Shanker
- Frank Sinatra
- Kate Smith
- Margaret Chase Smith
- William Stephenson
- John Steinbeck
- Isaac Stern
- Jimmy Stewart
- Robert S. Strauss
- Edward Teller
- George Tenet
- Margaret Thatcher
- Dave Thomas
- Lowell Thomas
- Mo Udall
- John Paul Vann
- Carl Vinson
- Nancy Wake
- Sam Walton
- Earl Warren
- Edgar Wayburn
- John Wayne
- Caspar Weinberger
- Byron White
- Elie Wiesel
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Thornton Wilder
- Ted Williams
- Edmund Wilson
- James Wilson
- John Wooden
- Walter B. Wriston
- Chuck Yeager
- Andrew Young
- Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.
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~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Insignia |
| ► | Notable recipients |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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