Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. It is an award bestowed by decision of the president of the United States to "any person recommended to the President for award of the Medal or any person selected by the President upon his own initiative," and was created to recognize people who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
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This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 298 total.
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- Pearl Bailey
- James Baker
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Lucille Ball
- Ernie Banks
- John Bardeen
- Jacques Barzun
- Count Basie
- Gary Becker
- Lloyd Bentsen
- Irving Berlin
- Yogi Berra
- Joe Biden
- Óscar Elías Biscet
- Tony Blair
- Norman Borlaug
- Omar Bradley
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
- David Brinkley
- Tom Brokaw
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
- Bear Bryant
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Warren Buffett
- Ralph Bunche
- Warren E. Burger
- James Burnham
- George H. W. Bush
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- James Cagney
- Alexander Calder
- Ben Carson
- Johnny Carson
- Rachel Carson
- Jimmy Carter
- Pablo Casals
- Vint Cerf
- Whittaker Chambers
- Cesar Chavez
- Dick Cheney
- Julia Child
- Shirley Chisholm
- Wesley Clark
- Roberto Clemente
- Bill Clinton
- Francis Collins
- Michael Collins (astronaut)
- Robert Conquest
- Aaron Copland
- Bill Cosby
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Walter Cronkite
- William J. Crowe
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- Yo-Yo Ma
- Archibald MacLeish
- Nelson Mandela
- Wilma Mankiller
- Thurgood Marshall
- Willie Mays
- David McCullough
- George McGovern
- Robert McNamara
- Margaret Mead
- Edwin Meese
- Karl Menninger
- Angela Merkel
- Lorne Michaels
- James A. Michener
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Harvey Milk
- Newton N. Minow
- Edgar Mitchell
- George J. Mitchell
- Jean Monnet
- Gordon Moore
- Rita Moreno
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Toni Morrison
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Lewis Mumford
- Edward R. Murrow
- Luis Muñoz Marín