The Presidential Medal of Freedom is equivalent to the Congressional Gold Medal, although the former can be awarded “with distinction,” a higher degree of award that has only been presented 55 ...

Conversely, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, created by President Harry S. Truman in 1945, is often given to recipients who reflect a president's "political and personal interests," according to ...

John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on ...

Joseph Drake, 100, of Hawley, is one of five surviving U.S. Army Rangers who served in World War II. He received a ...

The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest military award for bravery in combat, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the ...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a “better” award than the Defense Department’s Medal of Honor because service members have to sacrifice ...

Former Trump chief of staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly rejected former President Donald Trump’s comments that the Presidential Medal of Freedom that honors civilians was “much better ...

“It’s the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said of the civilian Medal of Freedom. “But the civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone that gets ...

WASHINGTON - Veterans rebuked former President Donald Trump this weekend for saying the Presidential Medal of Freedom is "much better" than the military Medal of Honor because recipients of the ...