Sep 12th, 2008 · Blues legend B.B. King's 60-year career has included a string of hits, including You Know I Love You, Bad Luck and The Thrill Is Gone. He has received many awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Grammy and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Jun 25th, 2008 · Benjamin Carson grew up in an inner-city, single parent home, and struggled in school. As a man, he rose to become a ground-breaking neurosurgeon, touching people's lives with his healing skills and his power to inspire. Carson talks about his life, career, and his newest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Aug 14th, 2007 · Philanthropist, socialite and consummate New Yorker, Brooke Astor, died at the age of 105. Over her lifetime she gave away nearly $200 million, most of it to charities and cultural organizations in New York City. In 1998, she received the nation's highest civilian honor a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her life's motto summed up her generosity in nine words: "Money is like manure, it should be spread around."
Dec 10th, 2006 · Ruth Johnson Colvin is one of 10 people who will be honored this coming week with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Colvin dedicated her life to literacy in 1962 when she discovered that more than 11,000 people in her hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., functionally couldn't read. It led her to create Literacy Volunteers or America which today has more than 125 affiliates.