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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients

President Barack H. Obama

August 12, 2009

Nancy Goodman Brinker

Dr. Pedro José Greer, Jr.

Stephen Hawking

Representative Jack Kemp

Senator Edward Kennedy

Billie Jean King

Reverend Joseph Lowery

Joseph Medicine Crow

Harvey Milk

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

Sidney Poitier

Chita Rivera

Mary Robinson

Dr. Janet Davison Rowley

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Muhammad Yunus

President George W.  Bush

January 13, 2009

Tony Blair

John Howard

Alvaro Uribe

June 19, 2008

Dr. Benjamin Carson

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Representative Tom Lantos

General Peter Pace

Donna Shalala

Laurence Silberman

November 5, 2007

Gary S. Becker

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet

Dr. Francis S. Collins

Benjamin L. Hooks

Representative Henry J. Hyde

Brian P. Lamb

Harper Lee

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

December 15, 2006

Ruth Johnson Colvin

Norman Francis

Paul Johnson

Riley "B.B." King

Joshua Lederberg

David McCullough

Norman Mineta

John "Buck" O'Neil

William Safire

Natan Sharansky

November 9, 2005

Muhammad Ali

Carol Burnett

Vinton Cerf

Robert Conquest

Aretha Franklin

Alan Greenspan

Andy Griffith

Paul Harvey

Robert Kahn

Representative Sonny Montgomery

General Richard B. Myers

Jack Nicklaus

Frank Robinson

Paul Rusesabagina

December 14, 2004

L. Paul Bremer

General Tommy Franks

George Tenet

June 23, 2004

Senator Edward Brooke

Doris Day

Vartan Gregorian

Gilbert Grosvenor

Gordon Hinckley

Estee Lauder

Rita Moreno

Arnold Palmer

Arnall Patz

Norman Podhoretz

Walter Wriston

June 4, 2004

Pope John Paul II

December 2, 2003

Robert L. Bartley

November 12, 2003

Lord Robertson

July 23, 2003

Jacques Barzun

Julia Child

Roberto Clemente

Van Cliburn

Vaclav Havel

Charlton Heston

Edward Teller

Dave Thomas

Justice Byron White

James Q. Wilson

John Wooden

July 9, 2002

Hank Aaron

Bill Cosby

Placido Domingo

Peter Drucker

Katharine Graham

Dr. D.A. Henderson

Irving Kristol

Nelson Mandela

Gordon Moore

Nancy Reagan

Fred Rogers

A.M. Rosenthal

President William J. Clinton

December 6, 2000

Aung San Suu Kyi

August 9, 2000

James Edward Burke

Senator John H. Chafee

General Wesley K. Clark

Admiral William Crowe

Marian Wright Edelman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Monsignor George Higgins

Reverend Jesse Jackson

Millie Jeffrey

Dr. Mathilde Krim

Senator George McGovern

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Cruz Reynoso

Reverend Gardner C. Taylor

Simon Wiesenthal

August 11, 1999

Senator Lloyd Bentsen

Edgar Bronfman Sr.

Evy Dubrow

Sister M. Isolina Ferre

President Gerald Ford

Oliver W. Hill

Max Kampelman

Edgar Wayburn

August 9, 1999

President Jimmy Carter

Rosalynn Carter

April 20, 1999

Helmut Kohl

March 17, 1999

Senator George Mitchell

October 29, 1998

Representative Dante Fascell

January 15, 1998

Arnold Aronson

Brooke Astor

Robert Coles

Justin Dart Jr.

James Farmer

Frances Hesselbein

Fred Koremtsu

Sol Linowitz

Wilma Mankiller

Margaret Murie

Mario Obledo

Elliot Richardson

David Rockefeller

Albert Shanker

Admiral Elmo "Bud" Zumwalt Jr.

 September 30, 1997

General John Shalikashvili

January 17, 1997

Senator Robert Dole

January 14, 1997

William J. Perry

September 9, 1996

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin

James Brady

Millard Fuller

David Alan Hamburg

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski

John H. Johnson

Eugene M. Lang

Antonia Pantoja

Rosa Parks

Ginetta Sagan

Representative Morris Udall

September 29, 1995

Peggy Charren

William T. Coleman Jr.

Joan Ganz Cooney

John Hope Franklin

Leon Higginbotham Jr.

Frank M. Johnson

Dr. C. Everett Koop

Senator Gaylord Nelson

Walter Reuther

James Rouse

Willie Velasquez

Lew Wasserman

August 8, 1994

Herbert Block

Cesar E. Chavez

Arthur Flemming

James Grant

Dorothy Irene Height

Representative Barbara Jordan

Joseph Land Kirkland

Representative Robert H. Michel

Sargent Shriver

November 30, 1993

Justice William Brennan

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Justice Thurgood Marshall

Joseph L. Rauh Jr.

John Minor Wisdom

November 2, 1993

Martha Raye

September 30, 1993

Colin Powell

June 20, 1993

Arthur Ashe

May 5, 1993

Senator J. William Fulbright