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Willie Mays gets Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama
Posted On Nov 25 2015
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Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays, sporting running shoes with his suit and tie, rose slowly from his chair and waved his baseball cap as President Barack Obama decorated him on Tuesday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. All but a few games of Berra’s career was spent with the NY Yankees, with whom he won 10 World Series over 14 seasons.
The politicians getting the honor are Democrats: Sen.
The current award was established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to honor individuals who have made contributions to the national interest, world peace, or to cultural endeavors.
Among the 17 awardees at the White House ceremony were singer-director Barbra Streisand, songwriter James Taylor, music producer Emilio Estefan and pop star Gloria Estefan, a Cuban American couple seen as trailblasers for being Spanish-language stars who successfully crossed over to the English-language market.
President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
Of Hamilton, Obama said he helped guide the nation through the Cold War and had a consistent commitment to bipartisanship.
Among the politicians honored were Senator Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving female USA senator in history, and Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 became the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress.
-William Ruckelshaus, a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, who shaped the guiding principles of the agency, including a nationwide ban on the pesticide DDT and an agreement with the automobile industry to require catalytic converters to reduce automobile pollution. Of Taylor, he stated the singer might flip an area right into a front room. Gen. Tom Carroll, died in an Army C-12 plane crash in 1992 – founded the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a program to help military families who have also lost loved ones.
Among those receiving this distinction are mathematician Katherine G. Johnson, 97, baseball legend Willie Mays, 84, and entertainment icon Barbra Streisand, 73!
