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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Subject: Presentations.</li>
<li><b>General notes:</b>  1970 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients - Journalists Accepting Awards, President Richard M. Nixon presented the Nation's highest civilian award, The Medal of Freedom, to eight journalists, one posthumously April 22nd at a White House white-tie dinner. L-R: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._McHargue" class="extiw" title="w:Robert M. McHargue">w:Robert M. McHargue</a>, who accepted the award for his grandfather <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Henry" class="extiw" title="w:Bill Henry">w:Bill Henry</a>, of the Los Angeles Times, who died last week; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Behrens" class="extiw" title="w:Earl Behrens">w:Earl Behrens</a>, San Francisco Chronicle; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Folliard" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Folliard">w:Edward Folliard</a>, former Washington Post correspondent; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Krock" class="extiw" title="w:Arthur Krock">w:Arthur Krock</a>, former New York Times columnist; Nixon; Mrs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlea_Rogers_St._Johns" class="extiw" title="w:Adlea Rogers St. Johns">w:Adlea Rogers St. Johns</a>, Hearst Newspapers; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lawrence" class="extiw" title="w:David Lawrence">w:David Lawrence</a>, U.S. News and World Report; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould_Lincoln" class="extiw" title="w:Gould Lincoln">w:Gould Lincoln</a>, Washington Star; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Moley" class="extiw" title="w:Raymond Moley">w:Raymond Moley</a>, Newsweek Magazine. April 22, 1970</li></ul><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></div>
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Jack E. Kightlinger, 1932-2009, Photographer (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.archives.gov/person/8451338">NARA record: 8451338</a>)<br></div>
22 April 1970<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1970-04-22T00:00:00Z/11</div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>