# Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient - Senator Richard Lugar

Richard Lugar represented Indiana in the United States Senate for more than 30 years. An internationally respected statesman, he is best known for his bipartisan leadership and decades-long commitment to reducing the threat of nuclear weapons. Prior to serving in Congress, Senator Lugar was a Rhodes Scholar and Mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1975. He currently serves as President of the Lugar Center. For more information visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/medal-of-freedom

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: The White House
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipient_-_Senator_Richard_Lugar.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: The White House
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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