{"id":142035,"date":"2025-01-05T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/presidential-medal-of-freedom\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T04:22:16","slug":"presidential-medal-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/presidential-medal-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Medal of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. It is an award bestowed by decision of the president of the United States to &#8220;any person recommended to the President for award of the Medal or any person selected by the President upon his own initiative,&#8221; and was created to recognize people who have made &#8220;an especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.&#8221;[4] The award is not limited to U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients of the award tonight (in no special order)<\/p>\n<p>Michael J Fox<br \/>Denzel Washington<br \/>Anna Wintour<br \/>Mitt Romney<br \/>Bill Nye the Science Guy<br \/>Ralph Lauren<br \/>Magic Johnson<br \/>Jane Goodall<br \/>Hillary Clinton<br \/>Bono<br \/>Chef Jose Andres<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Denzel Washington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W59TnJxofk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/W59TnJxofk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1875636066159395013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple more tweets behind the cut<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael J. Fox (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmikefox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@realmikefox<\/a>) receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HCdi8y9Jhp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/HCdi8y9Jhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1875623735094604183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jane Goodall (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaneGoodallInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@JaneGoodallInst<\/a>) receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uZC1VEWRhI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/uZC1VEWRhI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1875626755664539726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><i>Hoping since this is about the recipients, we can avoid political wank. Also, yes I am the same ty, not an imposter<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CSpan Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKazOr8Iidw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP Youtube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1875623735094604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1875636066159395013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1875623735094604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1875626755664539726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">6<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129807748.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. It is an award bestowed by decision of the president of the United States to &#8220;any person recommended to the President for award of the Medal or any person selected by the President upon his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}