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Congress awarded this medal posthumously to Charles M. Schulz, world-famous cartoonist and author of the "Peanuts" cartoon strip. Schulz drew every frame of the cartoon that ran daily from October 1950 to January 2000. The strip reached about 335 million readers in 20 different languages, making Schulz one of the most successful artists in the world. Schulz's work linked generations of Americans and became part of the fabric of American culture. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert presented this medal on June 7, 2001, on Capitol Hill.
The obverse of the medal features a portrait of Charles M. Schulz with the inion 'By Act of Congress 2000' centered along the lower border of the medal. The reverse features the 'Peanuts' characters in the center of the medal with the wording 'Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy' centered along the top of the medal and the wording 'how can I ever forget them.' centered at the bottom.
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