Obama Awards Medals to 16 People Who Made a Difference

Sixteen individuals received president Barack Obama’s Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday afternoon.
Obama Awards Medals to 16 People Who Made a Difference
FIRSTS: President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ambassador and actor Sidney Poitier on August 12. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
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LAST WAR CHIEF: U.S. President Barack Obama awards Joseph Medicine Crow the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House on August 12. Obama awarded 16 individuals the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
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