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In this April 25, 2012 file photo, former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt speaks in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. President Barack Obama will award Summitt a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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In this April 25, 2012 file photo, former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt speaks in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. President Barack Obama will award Summitt a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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  • In this April 25, 2012 file photo, former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt speaks in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. President Barack Obama will award Summitt a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
  • In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks southeast of Amman, Jordan. President Barack Obama will award Albright a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File )
  • In this Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles. President Barack Obama will award Dylan a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
  • In this Feb. 20, 2012 file photo, former Ohio Sen. John Glenn speaks in Columbus, Ohio. President Barack Obama will award Glenn a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
  • In this May 15, 2011 file photo, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison smiles after delivering a speech during the Rutgers University commencement ceremony, in Piscataway, N.J. President Barack Obama will award Morrison a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
  • In this Sept. 28, 2011 file photo, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 91, works in his office at the Supreme Court in Washington. President Barack Obama will award Stevens a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
  • In this March 8, 2012 file photo, Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks, in Beverly Hills, Calif. President Barack Obama will award Peres a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
  • This undated black-and-white file photo, shows Girl Scout movement founder Juliette Gordon Low. President Barack Obama will award Low a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo, File)
  • In this Sept. 17, 2003 file photo, Dolores Huerta, 73, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, attends her first meeting in San Francisco. President Barack Obama will award Huerta a Medal of Freedom at the White House later this spring. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

This is a partial list of honorees who will be awarded with the Medal of Freedom at the White House this spring.

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