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U.S. President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton look on as former President Invoice Clinton (not pictured) speaks in the course of the annual assembly of the Clinton World Initiative in New York on September 23, 2024.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington will obtain the nation’s highest civilian honor throughout a ceremony on the White Home on Saturday.
President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of essentially the most well-known names in politics, sports activities, leisure, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.
The White Home mentioned the recipients “have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values or safety of the US, world peace, or different essential civic, public, or non-public endeavors.”
4 medals are awarded posthumously. They go to Fannie Lou Hamer, who based the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Social gathering and laid the groundwork for the Voting Rights Act of 1965; former Legal professional Basic Robert F. Kennedy; George W. Romney, who served as Governor of Michigan in addition to Secretary of Housing and City Improvement; and Ash Carter, the previous Secretary of Protection.
Kennedy is the daddy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Well being and Human Companies. Romney is the daddy of former Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, considered one of Trump’s strongest conservative critics.
Main philanthropists receiving the award embody Spanish-American chef José Andrés, whose charity World Central Kitchen has change into one of many world’s most acknowledged meals aid organizations, and Bono, the frontman of rock band U2 and a social justice activist.
Sports activities and leisure stars acknowledged embody skilled footballer Lionel Messi; retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball legend and businessman Earvin “Magic” Johnson; actor Michael J. Fox, an outspoken advocate for Parkinson’s illness analysis and improvement; and William Sanford Nye, recognized to generations of scholars as “Invoice Nye the Science Man.”
Different winners embody conservationist Jane Goodall; Anna Wintour, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Journal; American clothier Ralph Lauren; American Movie Institute Founder George Stevens Jr.; entrepreneur and LGBTQ+ activist Tim Gill; and David Rubenstein, co-founder of world funding agency The Carlyle Group.
Final 12 months, Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 individuals, together with the late Medgar Evers, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina and actor Michelle Yeoh.
