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President Joe Biden awards Medal of Freedom to 17 people

By Associated Press

July 7, 2022

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President Joe Biden presents the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Ariz., who was gravely wounded when she was shot in the head in January 2011 during a constituent event in Tucson, at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to civil rights advocate Raul Yzaguirre during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to retired Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Vaught, one of the most decorated women in U.S. military history, broke gender barriers on her rise through the ranks of the Air Force.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to retired Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Megan Rapinoe at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Megan Rapinoe during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Rapinoe is a prominent advocate for gender pay equality, racial justice and LGBTQI+ rights.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Diane Nash at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Megan Rapinoe at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to former Sen. Alan Simpson at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to former Sen. Alan Simpson at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Fred Gray, a prominent civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., who called Gray "the chief counsel for the protest movement," at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to gymnast Simone Biles during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Biles is the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history, winning 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, and is an advocate on issues including athletes' mental health, children in foster care and sexual assault victims.
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President Joe Biden posthumously awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Sen. John McCain of Arizona as his wife Cindy McCain accepts the award during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Diane Nash at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Wilma Vaught during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Vaught, a retired brigadier general and one of the most decorated women in U.S. military history, broke gender barriers on her rise through the ranks of the Air Force.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Sandra Lindsay at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Fred Gray during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Gray is a prominent civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., who called Gray "the chief counsel for the protest movement."
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Father Alexander Karloutsos during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Karloutsos is the former Vicar General of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. After over 50 years as a priest, providing counsel to several U.S. presidents, he was named by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as a Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Julieta Garcia during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7. Garcia is a former president of the University of Texas at Brownsville, and the first Latina to become a college president. 
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Simone Biles at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.
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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Sister Simone Campbell at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7.

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