WHITE HOUSE: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA PRESENTS MEDALS OF FREEDOM + VIDEO

May 30th, 2012

President Barack Obama presents novelist Toni Morrison with a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tues., May 29, at the White House. She was one of 13 given the highest honor awarded to civilians in the United States, which included former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn and former NCAA basketball coach Pat Summitt. View video footage from the ceremony below.

Pres. Barack Obama Presents Medals of Freedom

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    I speak the truth

    Well deserved. I love work

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    Republican governors denying u the right to vote. Jim crow alive and well in 2012

    Congrats to all. Well Mr President, if congress radical republicans blocking and obstructing ur moves this is a move u can make which they can’t block. Maybe u make history with a record nber of symbolic deeds and executive orders. So sorry though but it still counts for something even though u r reduced to this in comparison.

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    sck

    Congrats to Toni Morrison and Dolores Huerta as well.

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    akili

    SHE DESERVES IT, I CAN NOT WAIT TO READ HER BOOK ‘THE BLUEST EYE”

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