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	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu
		Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu being congratulated by President Bill Clinton on receiving the Medal of Freedom.
		The Medal of Freedom was one of 15 awards presented by Clinton yesterday on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 69th birthday.
		Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu with fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Rosa Parks.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /FredKorematsu.htm (2367 words)

	Presidential Citizens Medal Recipients - The Presidential Citizens Medal was established in 1969 to recognize U.S. ...
		Presidential Citizens Medal Recipients - The Presidential Citizens Medal was established in 1969 to recognize U.S. citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service for the nation.
		The medal is bestowed by the president and may be conferred posthumously.
		The Presidential Citizens Medal is one of the highest honors the President can confer upon a civilian, second only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	www.citizensmedal.com (192 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom - The Highest Civilian Award For Distinguished Americans and Humanitarians from every ...
		Recipients of the medal are those who have made outstanding contributions to the security or national interest of the United States or to world peace, or those who have made a significant public or private accomplishment.
		In 1963 President John F. Kennedy ordered the former Medal of Freedom renamed and the recommending board altered by adding five members from outside the executive branch of the government to the five members from within it.
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award that is given in the United States.
	www.medaloffreedom.com (1720 words)

	Medal of Honor - Presidential Medal of Freedom - Reagan
		The Medal of Freedom is designed not to honor individuals for single acts of bravery, but instead, to acknowledge lifetime accomplishments that have changed the face and the soul of our country.
		He said, "Freedom is the right to say no." There's something kind of happily rebellious about that definition, and I thought of it this morning because I decided this year's recipients of the Medal of Freedom are distinguished by this.
		Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a great honor at any time, but it's especially meaningful for me to receive it from a friend and in the presence of people who have meant so much to Nancy and me over the years.
	www.medalofhonor.com /PresidentialMedalofFreedomReagan.htm (10222 words)

	The presidential medal of freedom
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom is America's highest civilian honor, the equivalent of the military Medal of Honor in times of war.
		Under Kennedy's decree, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was truly "Presidential." Previously, the Medal of Freedom could be awarded by the President, the Secretary of State or any of the various military Secretaries.
		President Kennedy went on to expand the Presidential Medal of Freedom to include all who had made lasting contributions "in all forms of endeavor that are touched with the public interest." In addition to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the award could be presented with a higher degree: The Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.
	akak.essortment.com /presidentialmed_rlxd.htm (597 words)

	President Presents Medal of Freedom
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom is our nation's highest civil award given to men and women of exceptional merit, integrity and achievement.
		Jerry Bremer is a diplomat, a philanthropist, a businessman, and a fashion pioneer.
		Now it is my honor to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and I ask the Military Aide to read the citations.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2004/12/20041214-3.html (1570 words)

	Presidential Medals of what?!? - Silver Chips Online
		Bush’s conferral of Medal of Freedom to Tenet, Bremer and Franks is disgraceful
		Bush' conferral of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to recipients as unlikely as Bremer, Tenet, and Franks did a great dishonor to the noble historical figures to whom the medal has previously been awarded.
		Two of the three Medal of Freedom winners were government servants who deserved to be sacked for their miscalculations and incompetence but were not.
	silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=4616 (956 words)

	BatesNow \| March , 2001 \| Presidential Medal of Freedom for Benjamin Mays '20?
		Georgia senators Max Cleland and Zell Miller recently announced plans to introduce a U.S. Senate resolution urging President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Benjamin Mays '20.
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom honors those who have made "especially meritorious" contributions to national security, world peace, or cultural, public or private endeavors.
		In 1984, then-President Reagan failed to grant Mays the Presidential Medal of Freedom, despite intense lobbying and unanimous approval by Congress.
	www.bates.edu /x737.xml (220 words)

	The Medal of Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Medal of Freedom was be awarded to Farmer and the others on the birthday of Martin Luther King.
		The Presidential of Freedom was established by President John F. Kennedy, but first awarded by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
		The executive order creating it says the Medal of Freedom is designed for persons the president deems to have made especially meritorious contributions to the security of national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public and private endeavors.
	www.cets.sfasu.edu /Harrison/Farmer/medal.htm (965 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since the first Presidential Medal, since those first recipients were chosen by President John Kennedy in 1963, some of the world's most notable individuals have been honored.
		In this administration alone, the medal is awarded to war heroes like General Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle; General Schwarzkopf; diplomats and public servants like Jim Baker and Margaret Chase Smith and Douglas Dillon; world-famous entertainers such as Lucille Ball; and just last year, a world leader of enormous consequence, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
		Over 40 years ago, Professor von Hayek wrote that ``the road to serfdom'' was not the road to the future or to the political and economic freedom of man. A Nobel laureate, he is widely credited as one of the most influential economic writers of our century.
	bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1991/91111800.html (1197 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom for bluesman BB King \| Breaking news \| Guardian Unlimited Sport (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Presidential Medal of Freedom for bluesman BB King
		"He remained steadfast in his defiance of tyranny and has continued to champion the principles that all people deserve to live in freedom and that the advance of liberty is critical to peace and security around the world," the White House said of the former Israeli cabinet minister.
		Also receiving the Medal of Freedom are: literacy advocate Ruth Johnson Colvin; Norman Francis, president of Xavier University of Louisiana; British historian and journalist Paul Johnson; Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel Prize winner for his work in bacterial genetics; former transportation secretary Norman Mineta; and William Safire, a former New York Times columnist.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6265803,00.html (469 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom — Infoplease.com
		Defining Medals Down; The Presidential Medal of Freedom ain't what it used to be.
		Among the latest recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is Norman Podhoretz, for 35 years editor of Commentary.(Brief Article)...
		Presidential medal of freedom recipients.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Riley "B.B." King, Norman C. Francis and John "Buck" O'Neil)(Brief article)...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0002285.html (428 words)

	Petition for The Presidential Medal of Freedom for Liviu Librescu \| BuzzDroid.com
		Petition for The Presidential Medal of Freedom for Liviu Librescu
		Petition for The Presidential Medal of Freedom for Liviu Librescu
		"Petition for The Presidential Medal of Freedom for Liviu Librescu" was published on May 3rd, 2007 and is listed in Karma.
	buzzdroid.com /karma/petition-for-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-for-liviu-librescu (343 words)

	cbs5.com - Bush Gives Presidential Medal Of Freedom To Mineta
		(AP) WASHINGTON President Bush on Friday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a blues guitarist, a baseball star, a scientist, a former California congressman and several writers and educators.
		The medal is the nation's highest civilian honor, recognizing achievement in public service, science, the arts, education, athletics and other fields.
		The writer and commentator was honored for polishing the nation's language and elevating the debates of the day.
	cbs5.com /politics/local_story_349171417.html (448 words)

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		The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest honor given to civilians in the United States.
		For our children, especially now when so many of their lives have been darkened by violence and irresponsible or absent role models, the robbers of innocence, of poverty and drug abuse and gang life, the excesses of our modern commercial media culture and other forces that are undermining the fabric of good lives.
		Let me close, before we hear from the official citation and present the medals, by saying that I think that all the people who are here, were they to speak, would tell you that they did not come here alone.
	clinton6.nara.gov /1995/09/1995-09-29-president-remarks-in-medal-of-freedom-presentation.html (3866 words)

	US Medal of Freedom
		The highest civilian decoration of the United States is the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
		This award was established as the Medal of Freedom by President Harry S. Truman on 6th July 1945.
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
	64-baker-street.org /honours/hon_us_medal_freedom.html (509 words)

	Bush Gives Medal of Freedom to 'Pivotal' Iraq Figures (washingtonpost.com)
		Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday at the White House were, from left, former CIA director George Tenet, retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer.
		Video: President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three men who were central to his Iraq policy.
		The Medal of Freedom was established by President Harry Truman in 1945 as a way to honor allies who had helped the war effort, and most initial recipients were not American citizens, said Jim Salmon, who tracks the medal's history for a Web site.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A63623-2004Dec14.html (897 words)

	Learn About Congress: Lesson Plans for Teachers
		Go to the Presidential Medal of Freedom Web site, and use a projection device to show students a picture of the medal.
		Ask students if they know what the Presidential Medal of Freedom is. Explain to students that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is America’s highest civilian award.
		Ask each student to choose two recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, at least one of which should be a former Member of Congress.
	congress.indiana.edu /lesson_plans/president_medal_freedom.php (448 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom - MSN Encarta
		Presidential Medal of Freedom, medal awarded annually by the president of the United States to individuals selected by him or recommended to him by...
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		Is the Ivy League worth it?: A value-added analysis
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576877/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.html (67 words)

	Fred Rogers gets Presidential Medal of Freedom
		President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Fred Rogers yesterday in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
		The Medal of Freedom, created in 1963 by then-President John F. Kennedy, is the nation's highest civilian honor.
		Bush took the jesting in stride, but appeared exasperated when he was unable to fasten the medal around Cosby's neck.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20020710fredrogersp1.asp (764 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners (UCLA Gateway)
		President George W. Bush confers the Medal of Freedom on John Wooden in 2003.
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation's highest civilian award, recognizes exceptional meritorious service.
		The medal was established by President Harry Truman in 1945 to recognize notable wartime service.
	www.ucla.edu /about/presidential/index.html (101 words)

	The Graphic - Public Policy Scholar Earns Presidential Medal Of Freedom
		Wilson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom June 23 alongside a number of other distinguished honorees, from Julia Child to Charlton Heston.
		The emancipation, the spread of human freedom was of enormous benefit to all of mankind, but there’s a cost attached to it.
		Not that freedom is bad, but we have to establish out of our own views, not by government programs, some restraints on freedom, in order to preserve this core institution of society, namely the family, on which everything else depends.
	graphic.pepperdine.edu /living/2003/2003-11-13-policy.htm (1857 words)

	Nicklaus receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bush in Washington (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Having the president fasten the Medal of Freedom around your neck while an announcer booms your life's greatest accomplishments apparently does something even to those most accustomed to fame and fortune.
		"All who receive the Medal of Freedom can know that they have a special place in the life of our country, and have earned the respect and affection of the American people," Bush said Wednesday as he gave the awards.
		This year's 14 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the government's highest civilian honor, were divided about equally between sports and entertainment celebrities and prominent figures from the more sober worlds of economics, science, letters and policy.
	www.pga.com /news/tours/champions/nicklaus110905.cfm (596 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Received the Medal of Freedom
		Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.
		Spingarn Medal in 1978; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
		Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.
	politicalgraveyard.com /special/medal-of-freedom.html (4568 words)

	Executive Order 11085
		The Medal of Freedom is hereby re-established as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom, hereinafter referred to as the Medal, shall be in two degrees.
		(a) The Medal may be awarded by the President as provided in this order to any person who has 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.
	www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/jfkeo/eo/11085.htm (692 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom \| WesPAC
		The Presidential Medal of Freedom is, along with the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest civilian award.
		The award is designed to recognize individuals who have made an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
		“Wes Clark richly deserves the Medal of Freedom, not just for the outstanding job he did leading NATO in its first and only conflict, but for a lifetime of distinguished service in the United States Army and for the Department of Defense.
	securingamerica.com /node/790 (393 words)

	At the White House, Prizes for 14 Champs
		President Bush presented the Presidential Medals of Freedom at the White House on Wednesday, including one to champion heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali.
		The Presidential Medal of Honor is the polite, distinguished and altogether restrained grand dame to the Academy Awards, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys, et al.
		It was President Harry S. Truman, the "ordinary man from Missouri," who established the original Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1945, at the end of World War II.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110901738.html (893 words)

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