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President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to Detroit native Diana Ross and 20 other groundbreaking actors, musicians, athletes and innovators who inspired him over the years and “helped make me who I am.”
“Everybody on this stage has touched me in a very powerful, personal way, in ways that they probably couldn’t imagine,” Obama said in concluding an hour-long ceremony Tuesday in the White House East Room.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom recognizes especially meritorious contributions to the national interests of the United States, its security and its culture. Obama called the 2016 group a “particularly impressive class.”
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