On May 29, 2012, both Karski (posthumously) and Albright received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama.
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He received the Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian award, for his contributions during World War II in his design and engineering of the DUKW ("duck") military amphibious vehicle.
President John F. Kennedy established the Presidential Medal of Freedom (not to be confused with the World War II era Medal of Freedom) on February 22, 1963.
During the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, he served as a public safety official for which he earned the AHEPA Medal of Freedom the following year.
Phyllis Schlafly attacked this awarding of the Medal of Freedom to Wilson in her 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo.