Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and 14 others will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year. The White House announced Thursday that the president will bestow the nation's highest civilian honor on a class that includes activists, athletes, musicians and scientists.
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President Bill Clinton, 66, will be among the recipients for 2013.
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Oprah Winfrey, 59, is the youngest to get the honor this year.
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Benjamin C. Bradlee, 91, led The Washington Post during Watergate.
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The jazz musician Arturo Sandoval, 63, was born in Cuba.
"This year's honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent, but what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world," President Obama said in a statement.
Among the recipients is Benjamin C. Bradlee, 91, the former executive editor of The Washington Post, who led the paper during the Watergate era.
"Good God, how fabulous," Mr. Bradlee told The Post. "What more can a man get? I feel terribly honored. What does a person do to deserve this kind of prize?"
Ms. Winfrey, 59, is the youngest recipient, while Mr. Bradlee is the oldest.
Others include Ernie Banks, 82, the former Chicago Cubs star; Daniel Kahneman, 79, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow"; Richard G. Lugar, 81, the Republican former senator from Indiana who worked to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons; Loretta Lynn, 81, the country music singer; Mario Molina, 70, the environmental scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work revealing how some chemicals deplete the ozone layer; Arturo Sandoval, 63, the Cuban jazz musician; Dean Smith, 82, the former University of North Carolina basketball coach; Gloria Steinem, 79, the women's rights activist; Cordy Tindell Vivian, 89, the civil rights activist; and Judge Patricia Wald, 84, the first woman to serve on the federal appeals court in Washington. (Mr. Clinton is 66.)
The president will award the medal posthumously to Daniel K. Inouye, the Democratic senator from Hawaii and the first Japanese-American to serve in Congress; Sally Ride, the first female astronaut in space; and Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
More than 500 people have received the award since President John F. Kennedy created it 50 years ago by executive order.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 8, 2013
An earlier version of this article misstated the party affiliation of Richard G. Lugar, the former Indiana senator. He served as a Republican, not a Democrat.
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