Oprah Winfrey To Receive America's Highest Civilian Honor

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey arrives at the Vanity Fair dinner and post-party celebrating the seventy-fourth Academy Awards, 24 March 2002, at Mortons in West Hollywood. The White House Thursday, August 8, 2013 announced that media icon Winfrey will be given America's highest civilian honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom. You go, Oprah! Image: Rich Schmitt/AFP/Getty