![File:President George W. Bush Awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the East Room of the White House - DPLA - d13e8b0c7a0c869bf9b08a2171536c99.JPG - Wikimedia Commons File:President George W. Bush Awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the East Room of the White House - DPLA - d13e8b0c7a0c869bf9b08a2171536c99.JPG - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/President_George_W._Bush_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_to_Liberian_President_Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_in_the_East_Room_of_the_White_House_-_DPLA_-_d13e8b0c7a0c869bf9b08a2171536c99.JPG/640px-thumbnail.jpg)
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Ellen DeGeneres and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Among 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients - The New York Times
![Spring 2022 Global Engagement Distinguished Speaker, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf former President of Liberia and Nobel Laureate – Colorado School of Public Health at Colorado State University Spring 2022 Global Engagement Distinguished Speaker, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf former President of Liberia and Nobel Laureate – Colorado School of Public Health at Colorado State University](https://publichealth.colostate.edu/media/sites/70/2022/03/image001.jpg)
Spring 2022 Global Engagement Distinguished Speaker, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf former President of Liberia and Nobel Laureate – Colorado School of Public Health at Colorado State University
![Ellen DeGeneres on X: ".@POTUS Barack Obama just awarded me the #MedalofFreedom. I hope it serves as an ID. I have no idea how I'm getting home. https://t.co/JSMf0sJqyF" / X Ellen DeGeneres on X: ".@POTUS Barack Obama just awarded me the #MedalofFreedom. I hope it serves as an ID. I have no idea how I'm getting home. https://t.co/JSMf0sJqyF" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx5js9oWQAEiri7.jpg:large)
Ellen DeGeneres on X: ".@POTUS Barack Obama just awarded me the #MedalofFreedom. I hope it serves as an ID. I have no idea how I'm getting home. https://t.co/JSMf0sJqyF" / X
![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 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](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W0E135/us-president-george-w-bush-awards-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-to-liberias-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-in-the-east-room-of-the-white-house-in-washington-on-november-5-2007-upi-photoroger-l-wollenberg-W0E135.jpg)