CHICAGO -- Nineteen high-profile Americans were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House Friday – including Phil Donahue, who once taped his celebrated talk show in Chicago at CBS 2.Donahue, 88, was visibly moved as President Joe Biden gave him the prestigious honor.Donahue, a Cleveland native and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, worked a few jobs in radio and television before joining WHIO radio in Dayton, Ohio in 1959.
The topics back in those days included serious subjects that were controversial at the time – including abortion, nuclear war, the Equal Rights Amendment, and LGBTQ+ rights such as the adoption of children by lesbian couples. But he also hosted celebrities, politicians and newsmakers.
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