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freelancing now

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on my head

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a show on myself welcome to the White House this is

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one my favorite events every year especially

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special issue as I look

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this extraordinary group prevent vigils

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and our opportunity to honor them

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where our nation's highest civilian honour

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the presidential metal-free and this year

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its just a little more special because this marks the fiftieth anniversary

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President Kennedy establishing this award

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were honored by the way today

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to have with us one my favorite people

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Ethel Kennedy and a pretty good basketball player

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president kennedy's grandson Jack

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and those metal has been bestowed on more than

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500 deserving people tonight i'm looking forward to

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joining some of these honorees as well as members the Kennedy family as we pay

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tribute to these fifty years

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excellence and this morning we're honored to add 16

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new names sack after having first her first child she said she'd like some

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time out

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focus our family devoted almost ten years

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to raising five children but

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Patricia never lost the is to practice law while

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so-called

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early on Oprah Winfrey's career her bosses told her she should change her

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name

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to Susie I have just pause here to say I got the same advice

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of they didn't say I should be named Susan but they're

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suggest I should change my name people can relate to Susie

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that's what they said it turned out

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surprisingly that people can relate to Oprah just fine

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in more than 4500 up a so-so her shop

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her message was always you can

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you can do and you can be

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you can grow can be better and she was looking for

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rising from childhood poverty and abuse to

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the pinnacle the entertainment universe by

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even with forty emmys the distinction of being the first

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black female billionaire oprah's greatest strength has always been

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for Billy to help us discover the best in ourselves

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my show Nikon ourselves munger

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many devoted fans and friends

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as well those fans rope I didn't know I had a light in me

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until hope ur told me it was there what a great gift

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and finally we salute public servants to strengthen our nation difficult to wrap

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your brain around annual

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I watched other people receive it i watch Maya Angelou received hers and

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Sidney Poitier and never even imagined that I would

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even ever be considered it's not the kind of thing that you

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grow up I hope I get the matter love freedom so when i receive the call

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from the president himself saying that this was happening

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I hung up and I thought gee I didn't have an appropriate response because

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there is no appropriate response I to be honored by your country

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the highest honor in the land that says really the work that you have done

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we respect and one are you for it

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i mean there are however I don't know how you have a response to that

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other than deep deep deep gratitude

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which is what I feel today I was standing looking out over the

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White House line in you know the Sun on my face in thinking about

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the nearly five hundred other people who receive this award who

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to me our American heroes to be

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a on the same list with people like

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ernie banks in mike got gloria steinem had there not been gloria steinem in her

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fight for women's rights

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I wouldn't even have had an opportunity in the work that I've done

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on patricia wald in CT vivian until right so

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to be considered in that Levi love

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all those people is I would say the greatest

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honor my life this is the greatest honor of my life and

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officially as I was saying to the president I don't know if you need to

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get another win

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this is it learning how

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to live a life a passion that if you follow your heart's desire and your

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passion that your passion will lead you to your purpose

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this is what I know for sure and that every person who was born has a calling

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and actual real job in life to figure out what that calling is

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and that calling will be that hard to desire that thing that burned inside you

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that says

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yes I can and I love this is this gives me my juice this makes me feel alive the

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thing that makes you feel most alive

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is the thing that you are to give back to the world and every person is here

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to offer what they have to the rest of the world so

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I tried to share that with young people and also a

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the the need to be authentic you know I have built a career

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analyte I'll be myself which

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you know in the beginning I thought I could you know

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watch barbara walters in for a while I think I was pretending to be Barbara

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Walters and talk like barbara walters in

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soon discovered early in my career that I could be a better

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me better Oprah than I could ever be apart in barbara walters so I tried to

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encourage

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young people to look for a the

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the the real work is to discover who you are

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and to use who you are Oprah

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G when free

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Oprah G when free is a global

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media icon when she launched the Oprah Winfrey Show

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in 1986 there were few women and even fewer women of color

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with a national platform to discuss the issues

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and avenge shaping our times but over the twenty-five years that followed

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Oprah Winfrey's and Nate gift for tapping into our most fervent hopes

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and deepest fears drew millions of viewers across

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every background making her show the highest-rated talk show

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in television history off-screen Oprah Winfrey has used her influence

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to support underserved communities and to lift up the lives of young people

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especially young women around the world in her story

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we are reminded that no dream can be deferred when we refuse to let life's

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obstacles keep us down

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freedom honorees place

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right well be a back concludes the formal part

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today ceremony I wanna thank

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all of you for being here obviously

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we r deeply indebted to those who we are here today

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and we're getting up to take some pictures with the honorees and their

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family members

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the rest of you I i understand the food here is pretty good

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so I hope you enjoy the reception

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and I hope we carry away from this

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a reminder love what JFK

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understood to be the essence of the American spirit

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that it's represented here and

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songs maybe less talented but we all have the opportunity to

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to serve them open people's hearts and minds

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you know and and are smaller orbits

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so I hope everybody's been inspired as I have been participating in being with

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these people here today

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thank you very much

Medal of Freedom Recipient- Oprah Winfrey,broadcast journalists

Medal of Freedom Recipient-Oprah Winfrey broadcast journalists Creator "Oprah Winfrey Show"
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, established 50 years ago by President John F. Kennedy, is our nation's highest civilian honor. The medal has been presented to more than 500 individuals who have made 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."
Today, in a ceremony at the White House, President Obama added 16 names to that distinguished list.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is one of the world's most successful broadcast journalists. She is best known for creating The Oprah Winfrey Show, which became the highest rated talk show in America for 25 years. Ms. Winfrey has long been active in philanthropic causes and expanding opportunities for young women. She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010.
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