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
![2002 Nobel Economics Laureate Daniel Kahneman, pictured in 2006.](https://gdb.voanews.com/E7DF731E-68E2-4497-9B2C-7B087C70C4C1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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2002 Nobel Economics Laureate Daniel Kahneman, pictured in 2006.
![Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, pictured in 2012.](https://gdb.voanews.com/AD5D8584-1E4A-422E-8CB4-B33EA6B9EFE7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, pictured in 2012.
![Singer Loretta Lynn, pictured in 2010.](https://gdb.voanews.com/00076AC2-98FB-417E-AA52-6EADCE8D572D_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Singer Loretta Lynn, pictured in 2010.
![Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Jose Mario Molina, pictured in 2010.](https://gdb.voanews.com/6687C517-E873-444C-95B8-A9FAFDD4D91A_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Jose Mario Molina, pictured in 2010.