which of this year's Medal of Freedom recipients waited too damn long for it?

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Obviously the posthumous recipients have the strongest argument, except they're being pretty quiet about it.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Shirley Chisholm 6
Minoru Yasui 1
William Ruckelshaus 1
Barbara Mikulski 1
James Taylor 0
Barbra Streisand 0
Steven Spielberg 0
Stephen Sondheim 0
Itzhak Perlman 0
Willie Mays 0
Katherine G. Johnson 0
Lee Hamilton 0
Billy Frank, Jr. 0
Gloria Estefan 0
Emilio Estefan 0
Bonnie Carroll 0
Yogi Berra 0


skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:42 (nine years ago)

Ruckelshaus deserves a vote, so I'll give him one

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:01 (nine years ago)

as much as I love Mays and Berra, I voted Chisholm, as I probably would have in '72.

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:12 (nine years ago)

WHO DECIDES ON THESE ARBITRARY FOLKS IN UTTERLY DIFFERENT FIELDS?

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:41 (nine years ago)

tough choice between Mikulski and Chisholm for me

I am confused about what baseball players have done re: freedom

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:46 (nine years ago)

his wife is right below him but god help me i thought that said emilio estevez at first

balls, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 03:18 (nine years ago)

I am confused about what baseball players have done re: freedom

i'm confused what emilio fucking estevez has done re: freedom but i just assume it involves money + establishment of a foundation for something

brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 03:19 (nine years ago)

lolllll at me xp

brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 03:20 (nine years ago)

anyhow chisholm over billy frank jr

sondheim over mays from the artists and athletes

balls, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 03:22 (nine years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

the late great, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 04:59 (nine years ago)

http://www.visionaryproject.org/johnsonkatherine/

the late great, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 05:00 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:01 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:01 (nine years ago)

I am confused about what baseball players have done re: freedom

In Mays' case, superstar black athletes in the '50s were a variety of civil-rights advocate, perhaps. Berra partook in the D-Day invasion.

Here is Willie about to tell Katherine Johnson how he used higher math to track down Vic Wertz's drive in the 1954 World Series:

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/42/31/06/9015694/3/920x920.jpg

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 17:20 (nine years ago)

eleven months pass...

this year's recipients:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:17 (eight years ago)


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