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President Obama on May 29 presented legendary, influential singer/songwriter Bob Dylan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Other honorees included former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, civil rights leader John Doar, epidemiologist William Foege, former astronaut and Senator John Glenn, WWII Japanese-American internment resister Gordon Hirabayashi, farmworker activist Dolores Huerta, Polish Underground officer Jan Karski, Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low, author Toni Morrison, Israeli President Shimon Peres, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and former Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt.
