拜登最后一次颁授总统自由勋章：19人获颁美国最高平民荣誉
2025年1月4日，总统拜登在华盛顿特区白宫东厅颁授总统自由勋章，共有19人获颁这一美国最高平民荣誉。这是拜登任内最后一次主持这项颁授仪式。
总统自由勋章授予对美国的繁荣、价值或安全、世界和平，或其他重大社会、公共或私人事业作出杰出贡献的人士。拜登在仪式上说：「作为总统，我最后一次有荣幸把自由勋章——我国最高平民荣誉——授予一群非凡的人，他们付出了神圣的努力，去塑造美国的文化与事业。」
19名获颁者是：厨师兼世界中央厨房创办人 José Andrés；U2乐队主唱、艾滋病与贫困防治活动人士 Bono；第25任国防部长 Ashton Carter（追授）；前国务卿 Hillary Clinton；演员、帕金森病研究倡导者 Michael J. Fox；企业家兼平权慈善家 Tim Gill；动物行为学家兼环保人士 Jane Goodall；民权领袖 Fannie Lou Hamer（追授）；篮球名宿 Earvin “Magic” Johnson；前司法部长 Robert F. Kennedy（追授）；时装设计师 Ralph Lauren；足球运动员 Lionel Messi；科学教育家 Bill Nye；密歇根州前州长、前住房与城市发展部长 George Romney（追授）；凯雷集团联合创办人 David Rubenstein；开放社会基金会创办人 George Soros；美国电影学会创办人 George Stevens Jr.；演员 Denzel Washington；《Vogue》主编 Anna Wintour。
四枚勋章为追授：Carter、Hamer、Kennedy 与 Romney。仪式上，Stephanie Carter 代表 Ashton Carter 领奖，Doris Hamer Richardson 代表 Fannie Lou Hamer 领奖，Kerry Kennedy 代表 Robert F. Kennedy 领奖，Mitt Romney 代表其父 George Romney 领奖；George Soros 的勋章由其子 Alex Soros 代领。
Messi 虽名列获颁名单，但因日程安排未能出席当天的仪式。
拜登在讲话中还逐一点念获颁者的贡献：Andrés 的世界中央厨房为全球受自然灾害与冲突影响的社区提供大规模食物援助；Hamer 创办密西西比自由民主党，为1965年《选举权法》奠定基础；Messi 是职业足球史上获荣誉最多的球员，并担任联合国儿童基金会亲善大使。
（来源：白宫）
Biden Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 in His Final Ceremony as President
On January 4, 2025, President Joe Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. It was the final time Biden presented the nation's highest civilian honor as president.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. At the ceremony, Biden said: "For the final time as president, I have the honor of bestowing the Medal of Freedom, our nation's highest civilian honor, on a group of extraordinary, truly extraordinary people who gave their sacred effort to shape the culture and the cause of America."
The 19 recipients were: chef and World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés; Bono, frontman of U2 and a pioneering activist against AIDS and poverty; Ashton Carter, the 25th Secretary of Defense (posthumous); former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; actor and Parkinson's disease research advocate Michael J. Fox; entrepreneur and equality philanthropist Tim Gill; ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall; civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous); basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson; former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (posthumous); fashion designer Ralph Lauren; soccer player Lionel Messi; science educator Bill Nye; George Romney, former governor of Michigan and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (posthumous); David Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group; George Soros, founder of the Open Society Foundations; George Stevens Jr., founder of the American Film Institute; actor Denzel Washington; and Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue.
Four medals were awarded posthumously, to Carter, Hamer, Kennedy and Romney. At the ceremony, Stephanie Carter accepted on behalf of Ashton Carter, Doris Hamer Richardson accepted on behalf of Fannie Lou Hamer, Kerry Kennedy accepted on behalf of Robert F. Kennedy, and Mitt Romney accepted on behalf of his father George Romney; Alex Soros accepted the medal on behalf of his father, George Soros.
Messi was named a recipient but did not attend the ceremony because of a scheduling conflict.
In his remarks, Biden also cited individual contributions: Andrés's World Central Kitchen provides large-scale relief to communities affected by natural disasters and conflict around the world; Hamer founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act; Messi is the most decorated player in the history of professional soccer and serves as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
(Source: The White House)
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图片来源：图：总统自由勋章在白宫东厅仪式前陈列于桌上（2025年1月4日）。图：白宫官方照片（Cameron Smith 摄），公共领域，via Wikimedia Commons / Photo: Presidential Medals of Freedom rest on a table before the ceremony in the East Room of the White House on January 4, 2025. Photo: Official White House photo by Cameron Smith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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