No! Obama is the first sitting American President to receive this honor. So much for the Republican claim that he is anti-Jewish. Obviously, Shamon Perez doesn't think so.
Neither since she was a British citizen and was apolitical. She did however receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush.
In 1996, Rosa Parks was presented, by President Bill Clinton, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Richard Nixon received a Presidential Pardon from Gerald R. Ford.
Robert F. Kennedy, brother of President Kennedy, was assassinated the same summer that he was expected to receive the 1968 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Yes, George W. Bush was the first U.S. President to receive the presidential salary of $400,000 per year.
President George W. Bush awarded the medal to Doris Day in 2004.
President Abraham Lincoln won the 1864 presidential election over George B. McClellan by a significant margin. He did, however, as a first time politician receive 1.8 million votes.
Did Fredrick Douglass become Vice President
The last presidential candidate to receive the 14 NJ electoral votes was George H. W. Bush
On January 20, 2001, the annual U.S. Presidential salary doubled from $200,000 to $400,000.
President Obama won Washington's 12 electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party") after he failed to receive the Republic nomination in the 1912 presidential election.