Question: Ralph Bunche was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by a president that was born in what year?

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Andy Hopkins: Andy Hopkins (born October 19, 1949) is a former all-star Canadian Football League (CFL) running back.  Andrew “Shay” Hopkins, a native of Crockett, Texas attended Ralph Bunche High School.  He was a member of the High School Choir, Ralph Bunche Gazette, Year-book Staff and Sports Editor of the Ralph Bunche Year-book.  Andy showed extraordinary athletic abilities in high school.  He was a stand-out star in track, baseball, and football.  Hopkins didn’t make the football team: he was cut as a ninth-grader under the coaching of his father, Andrew J. Hopkins.  Hopkins used this incident as a determining factor to try harder.  He later became captain of his high school football team.

Ralph Johnson Bunche House: Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the last home of American diplomat Ralph Bunche (1903-1971),

List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients: This is an alphabetized, partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, grouped by the aspect of life in which they are/were renowned.  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded by the President of the United States "for especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors"; it is awarded to individuals selected by the President or recommended to him by the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board.  The only exception to the rule for the sitting president choosing those to be honored, was that the first recipients were selected by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination, and formally awarded by his successor in office, Lyndon B. Johnson.  President Barack Obama awarded 123 Medals, the most ever, followed by President Ronald Reagan with 102 Medal recipients.

Ralph J. Bunche House: Ralph J. Bunche House, also known as the Ralph Bunche Peace & Heritage Center and located in South Los Angeles, United States, was the Victorian-Bungalow style boyhood home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche.  It was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 159) by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in 1976, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Thomas G. Weiss: Thomas G. Weiss (born 1946) is a distinguished scholar of international relations and global governance with special expertise in the politics of the United Nations.  He was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for a project exploring the concept of a world without the United Nations.  Since 1998, he has been Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

Ralph Bunche: December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel.  He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize.  He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations.  In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy.

Ralph Bunche Park: Ralph Bunche Park is a small municipal public park in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of New York City, on First Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets.  It was named in 1979 for Ralph Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ralph Bunche House (Washington, D.C.): Ralph Bunche House was the home Ralph Bunche commissioned from Hilyard Robinson in 1941.  It is located at 1510 Jackson Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C., United States, in the Brookland neighborhood.

Ralph Bunche High School: Ralph Bunche High School was a school constructed in 1949 as a result of Civil Action 631 to provide "separate but equal" education for African-American students in King George County, Virginia.  The school operated until 1968 when King George High School was completed and the county's schools integrated.  The school was named for Ralph Bunche, an African-American educator, diplomat and Nobel Prize winner.

John F. Kennedy: John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American statesman who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.  Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and much of his presidency focused on managing relations with the Soviet Union.  He was a member of the Democratic Party who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate prior to becoming president.

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Answer: 1917