Barack Obama is looking back on his eight years in the White House. During his interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the 59-year-old former president revealed that his one “screw up” is not giving Dolly Parton a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The medal is “awarded by the President of the United States to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” according to the White House. Stephen asked Obama how the 74-year-old country music icon could not have a Medal of Freedom after all of her humanitarian work.
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