Talk:List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

categories?

Is the medal actually awarded by category? "presidential medal of freedom in sports" , etc? If not I don't see why we should have such categories here. In fact it would seem to be original research for us to go and assign such categories. Gjxj (talk) 19:23, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

You're clearly right. But it won't get changed unless someone boldly does so. -- Jibal (talk) 22:30, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Without the categories this list has now become overly burdensome for the average user to look through, even though they may not be official categories they need to be brought back to increase the readability of the page. Enh1905 (talk) 14:47, 20 April 2020 (UTC) Enh1905

The list with the categories was actually easier to navigate and perceive. Perhaps, we could add short notes about what was each person's main activity? --Extended Cut (talk) 21:07, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I understand what you're saying, but making up categories to sort the recipients by is OR/Synthesis. But I would support short descriptors such as : 'Athlete' or 'Politician' in the notes column, or in a renamed ref column. Would that make sense? ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia ^talk 21:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Such as: (note the renamed section)

Recipient	Year	President		Notes
Marian Anderson	1963	John F. Kennedy		Singer

‡ Єl Cid of Valencia ^talk 21:15, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that would be great. We can leave everything as it is and just add a column for occupation/activity. --Extended Cut (talk) 13:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

I definitely support adding a column for occupation. I removed the column for the president, since we already have them in sections for the president, making that column redundant. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 16:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Is it really not awarded by category? The reference in the External Links section (Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients, 1963–2002) has recommendations for medal recipients with explicit categories...

• On the 47th page of the PDF: "For your consideration to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Edward Teller, Ph.D., in the category of Science."
• Starting on the 51st page of the PDF, there's a historical table with a column for category: "Aaron, Hank; President G. W. Bush; July 9, 2002; Athletics; Baseball player who holds record for most hom (sic) runs, RBIs, total bases"

--104.33.84.119 (talk) 03:29, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

The Presidential medal of Freedom award numbers for Obama are inconsistent

You state up front that Obama presented 123 awards, yet the listing of names and dates awarded by Obama only adds up to 118. Where are the other 5? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.68.210.54 (talk) 01:42, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Change source 71

From https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-president-donald-j-trump-names-recipients-of-1830356999 to https://web.archive.org/web/20201016100659/https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-president-donald-j-trump-names-recipients-of-1830356999 — Preceding unsigned comment added by GameOfAwesome (talk • contribs) 17:18, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Order on Trump

The order should be Nunes, Zahrias, Player, Sörenstam, Jordan.

Nunes was on the Jan 4th

Zahrias, Player, Sörenstam where on Jan 7th

Jordan is scheduled next week. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.189.4.21 (talk) 08:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Bill Belichick?

What to do with Bill Belichick, who was offered the medal but declined? Samer (talk) 01:07, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

With Distinction

Can somebody explain what it means to win the Medal of Freedom with distinction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C7:67F:4200:453F:4BCF:F726:C622 (talk) 05:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

It's just a "higher level" of the award (bigger medal). Samer (talk) 06:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Posthumous JFK

Somebody made all of JFK's awards posthumous when several (all?) of them died after 1963. Can someone do the research and correct? Thanks!