President Obama will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 15 recipients (one posthumously) at a ceremony early next year.
The full list of recipients released by the White House this afternoon includes:
President George H. W. Bush
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis (D-Ga.)
John H. Adams, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Poet Maya Angelou
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett
Artist Jasper Johns
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor and Jewish author and U.S. citizenship advocate
Tom Little (Posthumous), optometrist killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan on a humanitarian mission earlier this year
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Hispanic civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez
Baseball legend Stan Musial
Basketball playing and coaching legend and civil rights figure Bill Russell
Jean Kennedy Smith, former U.S. ambassador to Ireland
John J. Sweeney, AFL-CIO president emeritus
Would that be the same GHW Bush the war-profiteering spook who oversaw the Iran-Contra scam, the Bay of Pigs, managed terrorism in Central America, palled around with dictators like Noriega and Hussein..? -What, is Obama (not) thinking? Medal of Freedom? What a travesty.
Posted by: azbbm1 | November 18, 2010 at 01:55 PM