Question: This American talk show host and comedian was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992, and traveled to Mexico to obtain what?

Context articles: KDWN
Leeza Gibbons
Tavis Smiley
The Joan Rivers Show
Oprah Winfrey
Mexican divorce
Richard Bey
Chip Franklin
Johnny Carson
List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

KDWN (720 AM) is an American radio station owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 It broadcasts full-time at 50,000 watts, and is directional at night.
 It can be heard throughout most of the Western United States, north into Canada and south into Mexico.
 KDWN is primarily a news-talk radio station featuring a local morning talk show host Alan Stock and syndicated talk show host Jerry Doyle.
 KDWN also broadcasts brokered programs for Las Vegas casinos, local businesses, and other groups.
 It is the station where famous late-night talk show host Art Bell first broadcast his show, Coast to Coast AM.
 It also has a local news alliance with Channel 8 KLAS-TV, the CBS TV Network affiliate in Las Vegas.
Leeza Kim Gibbons (born March 26, 1957) is an American talk show host.
 She is best known as a correspondent and co-host for "Entertainment Tonight" (1984–2000) as well as for having her own syndicated daytime talk show, "Leeza" (1993–2000).
 In 2013, her book "Take 2" became a "New York Times" bestseller and she won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle or Travel program for the PBS show, "My Generation".
 On February 16, 2015, Leeza was named the winner of "Celebrity Apprentice", having raised $714,000 for her charity Leeza's Care Connection.
Tavis Smiley ( ; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.
 Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana.
 After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
 Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and, starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show "BET Talk" (later renamed "BET Tonight") on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
 After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year.
 Smiley then began hosting "The Tavis Smiley Show" on National Public Radio (NPR) (2002–04) and currently hosts "Tavis Smiley" on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International (PRI).
 From 2010 to 2013, Smiley and Cornel West joined forces to host their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".
 They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film "Still Bill".
 He is the new host of "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio's Tavis Smiley Network.
The Joan Rivers Show is an American talk show hosted by comedian Joan Rivers that premiered on September 5, 1989 in broadcast syndication.
 The show aired for five seasons and ended on December 31, 1993.
 The show was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards, with Rivers winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990.
 The series was produced by PGHM Productions, Joan Rivers's production company, and distributed by Tribune Entertainment.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
 She is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
 Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is North America's first multi-billionaire black person.
 Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.
 In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
In the 1960s, some Americans traveled to Mexico to obtain a "Mexican divorce".
 A divorce in Mexico was easier, quicker, and less expensive than a divorce in most U.S. states.
 Celebrities who obtained a Mexican divorce include Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Don Hewitt, Charlie Chaplin and Tom T. Chamales.
 It is also mentioned in the Jack Kerouac book "On the Road".
 It was often referred to as a "quickie" (or "quicky") "Mexican divorce".
Richard Wayne Bey (born July 22, 1951) is an American talk show host.
 He was popular in the 1990s as host of "The Richard Bey Show", a daytime talk show containing ordinary people's personal stories incorporated into entertaining competitive games.
Chip Franklin is a nationally known talk show host, writer, producer, comedian and musician.
 For the last 20+ years, he's been a talk show host, and is currently on KGO in San Francisco, California.
 He is also former host of a talk show on KOGO in San Diego, California and WBAL AM 1090 in Baltimore, Maryland and at WMAL in Washington DC.
 The Washington Post's Marc Fisher says "Franklin adds a rare dose of irony to a medium that rarely trusts its audience to get the joke.”
 In San Diego and Baltimore, Washington DC, Franklin is also known as a comedian and frequents clubs in the markets.
John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American talk show host and comedian, best known for his 30 years as host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962–1992).
 Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Television Academy's 1980 Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award.
 He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987.
 Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
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.