Medal of Freedom Recipients Announced, Include Tutu, Harvey Milk
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The honorees are breast cancer advocate Nancy Goodman Brinker; poverty clinic doctor and Cuban expatriate Dr. Pedro Jose Greer; Stephen Hawking; the late Jack Kemp; Ted Kennedy; Billie Jean King; civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery; Crow elder and historian Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow; the late Harvey Milk; former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; Sidney Poitier; Chita Rivera; former president of the Republic of Ireland Mary Robinson; geneticist Janet Davison Rowley; Desmond Tutu, and micro-loan pioneer Muhammad Yunus.
Posthumous decoration with the Medal of Freedom is not unknown; Reagan gave one to the late Whittaker Chambers in 1984. The honors will be bestowed at a ceremony on August 11. Photo via wikipedia.
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