







President Barack Obama applauds after presenting the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stephen Hawking, the renown theoretical physicist and Cambridge University professor, during ceremonies at the white House., also Professor Muhammad Yunus, Pedro Jose Greer Jr., Billie Jean King, Dr. Janet Davison Rowley,M.D., Chita Rivera, Joseph Medicine Crow, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, South African Archbishop Emritus Desmond Tutu, Ambassador and Actor Sidney Poitier.,Kara Kennedy, wipes a tear as President Barack Obama reads about her Father, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MASS., as he awards the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Rev.Joseph Lowery leader of the Civil rights movement since the 1950s, Nancy Goodman Brinker, President of Ireland Mary Robinson, and presented to Joanne Kemp,for her deceased husband Sen. Jack Kemp. Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009