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 WASHINGTON -- The White House has announced this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Obama, in a statement, said the honorees have “challenged us, they’ve inspired us, and they’ve made the world a better place.” 
 
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 To contact the editor responsible for this story: Steven Komarow at skomarow1@bloomberg.net The awards were announced today and will be presented in the late spring, the White House said in a statement. Dylan has won almost every other major award, including a Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Art et des Lettres, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and the 2009 National Medal of Arts. The other Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients are: Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State; John Doar, a legendary public servant and civil rights leader during the 1960s; William Foege, a physician and epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox in the 1970s; former astronaut and U.S.  Associated Press Bob Dylan performing in L.A. in January 2012. Senator John Glenn; Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; Dolores Huerta, a civil rights, workers and women’s advocate who worked closely with Cesar Chavez; Jan Karski, who served as an officer in the Polish Underground during World War II; Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts in 1912; Toni Morrison, one of the great American novelists; Shimon Peres, an advocate for Israel’s security and for peace; John Paul Stevens, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010, and Pat Summitt, a widely respected college basketball coach. Music icon Bob Dylan, former astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn and Israeli President Shimon Peres are among 13 men and women President Barack Obama has chosen to receive the Medal of Freedom. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, author Toni Morrison and former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens also are among those being honored for “especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” 
 
 Other recipients include John Doar, a lawyer who played key roles in the civil rights era and Watergate investigation; epidemiologist William Foege; farmworker organizer Dolores Huerta; and Pat Summitt, the former University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach and Alzheimer’s patient advocate whose award was announced earlier this month by the White House.
– Bob Dylan will get the nation's highest civilian honor later this spring, reports Bloomberg. Dylan, 70, will be one of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He's already got scores of Grammys, an Oscar, and a Pulitzer, and the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog can't help but wonder: Is a Nobel next? Other recipients this year include John Glenn, Pat Summitt, Madeleine Albright, Toni Morrison, Shimon Peres, and the Supreme Court's John Paul Stevens. The Los Angeles Times has the full list, along with brief bios.