Editing Whittaker Chambers (section)

===Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)===
[[File:presidential-medal-of-freedom.jpg|thumb|right|Chambers received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] posthumously from President [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984]]
In 1984, President [[Ronald Reagan]] posthumously awarded Chambers the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], for his contribution to "the century's epic struggle between freedom and totalitarianism". In 1988, Interior Secretary [[Donald P. Hodel]] granted national landmark status to the [[Whittaker Chambers Farm|Pipe Creek Farm]].<ref name=Britannica/><ref>{{cite news
 | title = Site in Hiss–Chambers Case Now a Landmark
 | date = May 18, 1988
 | work = The New York Times
 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=940DEEDA1339F93BA25756C0A96E948260
 | access-date = June 20, 2008
 | archive-date = February 14, 2009
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090214133504/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=940DEEDA1339F93BA25756C0A96E948260
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 }}</ref> In 2001, members of the [[George W. Bush]] administration held a private ceremony to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Chambers's birth. Speakers included William F. Buckley, Jr.<ref>{{cite magazine
 | title = Witness and Friends: Remembering Whittaker Chambers on the centennial of his birth.
 | date = August 6, 2001
 | magazine = [[National Review]]
 | url = http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/2001200511220837.asp
 | access-date = June 20, 2008
 | archive-date = May 13, 2008
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080513105646/http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/2001200511220837.asp
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 }}</ref>