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The medal produced from Saint-Gaudens certainly held a superior art aesthetic in comparison to the original medal produced by the Inaugural Committee. One side of the medal displays a distinguished portrait of Roosevelt and the other side holds a high-relief eagle. This is the same eagle that is later used for the $10 coins produced by the U.S ...
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (1966–73) American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (1973–76) The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic.
Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George H. W. Bush (January 18, 1993) [9] Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom by Republican U.S. senators [10] Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion by the Czech Republic (1999) [11] Order of the White Eagle by Polish President Lech Kaczyński (July 10, 2007) (in-memoriam) [12]
David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and professor emeritus of history at New York University.He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively).
In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [17] Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was, instead, assigned to ...
Medal Obverse design Reverse design Mintage Available Obverse Reverse Robert Frost American Arts medal Robert Frost: Three lines from Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken: Uncirculated: 500,000 (W) 1983 Alexander Calder American Arts medal Alexander Calder: Kinetic sculpture: Uncirculated: 410,000 (W) 1983
Ralph J. Menconi (June 17, 1915 – November 18, 1972) was a prominent sculptor and medallist, who received many accolades during his lifetime. Among them were the Ellen P. Speyer award for original sculpture in 1941, the Freedom Foundation Award, the Michelangelo Award, the American Numismatic Association's Sculptor of the Year award in 1970, and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy ...
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