In one of his final acts as President, President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden is only the fourth person to get the added Distinction level since the George H.W. Bush Administration. The other three are Pope John Paul II, President […]
President Obama awarded twenty-one Americans the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. The medal is the highest civilian honor in the United States. President Obama has awarded 123 Medals of Freedom, the highest of any President since it was introduced by President John F. Kennedy. The honorees were given the […]
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama named sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to […]
