USA

2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients

Former Chicago Cubs first baseman Ernie Banks, pictured in 2013. 

Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post, pictured in 2011.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, pictured Oct. 29, 2013.

Former Hawaii Senator. Daniel Inouye, pictured in 2012.

2002 Nobel Economics Laureate Daniel Kahneman, pictured in 2006.

Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, pictured in 2012.

Singer Loretta Lynn, pictured in 2010.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Jose Mario Molina, pictured in 2010.

Astronaut Sally Ride pictured in an undated photo.

American civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, pictured in 1968.

Grammy-winning jazz musician Arturo Sandoval, pictured in 2013.

Former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, pictured in 2006.

Gloria Steinem, pictured in 2013.

Civil rights activist C.T. Vivian, pictured in 2012.

Judge Patricia Wald, pictured in 2000.

Oprah Winfrey, pictured in 2013.