By Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the New York Times reports. The songwriter will be given the highest civilian
honor awarded by the United States along with author Toni Morrison, former
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn and former Supreme
Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Dylan was praised as one of the "most influential
American musicians of the 20th century" in a statement about the honor
released by the White House. The White House also acknowledged that Dylan had
"considerable influence on the civil rights movement of the 1960s and has
had significant impact on American culture over the past five decades."
Dylan was previously honored with a National Medal of Arts
in 2009.
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