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Legendary college football coach Lou Holtz will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Trump announced at a White House press briefing on Friday. Trump said the White House received letters of recommendation from several prominent figures across sports and politics, including University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Louisiana State University head coach Ed Orgeron and former Ohio State University head coach Urban Meyer. The president called Holtz an “incredible leader” who deserved the country’s highest civilian honor. “I’ve known him for a long time. He’s a great friend of mine and I think I’ve received letters from every...

Blue Room 11:24 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much.  Please.  Let’s enjoy ourselves.  This is a tremendous moment for Jim and your family, and let’s just enjoy ourselves for a little while.  We’ll ask Jim to say a few words.  I want to hear what he has to say about his great talent, his great running ability.  I find athletics to be extraordinary.  I love it.Thank you for being here.  And today, it is my privilege to present our nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to a legendary athlete and a legendary runner, Olympian,...

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I would be remiss if I didn’t report on the Won’s last Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards show. The last, like the first, was all about Obama: "Everybody on this stage has touched me in a very powerful, very personal way.These are folks who have helped make me who I am.” How would you like to put that on your resume?“I helped put the smug in Obama’s smile.” Perhaps most striking about Tuesday’s ceremony is that nine of the 20 awards (45 percent) recognize actors, artists, or musicians — a category that represents only 17 percent of total Medal recipients...

Tony Blair has backed calls for a posthumous honour for a British-born hero of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York, it has emerged. Rick Rescorla served in Vietnam Rick Rescorla, 62, was head of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter when two hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Centre in 2001. He died after helping save 2,700 people by making sure they left the South Tower before it collapsed. His body has never been found. Originally from Hayle, west Cornwall, Mr Rescorla was granted US citizenship in the late 1960s and served in Vietnam. In 2002 he was...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - President Bush on Tuesday bestowed the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on three of the central architects and executors of the war in Iraq, one of the president's strongest efforts yet at putting a formal stamp of success on a war whose outcome is still a question. The recipients were Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the overall commander of the invasion of Iraq; L. Paul Bremer III, the chief civilian administrator of the American occupation of the country; and George J. Tenet, the longtime director of central intelligence who built the case for...