U.S. President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - to 16 Americans in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
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2002 Nobel Economics Laureate Daniel Kahneman, pictured in 2006.
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Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, pictured in 2012.
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Singer Loretta Lynn, pictured in 2010.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Jose Mario Molina, pictured in 2010.