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President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to comedian Ellen DeGeneres during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on November 22, 2016. Obama
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Barack Obama chokes up while presenting Ellen DeGeneres with Presidential Medal of Freedom - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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U.S. President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the East Room of the White House in Washington on November 5, 2007. (UPI
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