Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are among those who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday.
Clarence B. Jones says he thought a prankster was on the line when he answered the telephone and heard the person on the other end say they were calling from the White House."I said, ‘Is this a joke or is this serious?’" Jones recalled. The caller swore they were serious and was calling with the news that President Joe Biden wanted to recognize Jones with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Pelosi is the first and only woman ever elected to the speaker's post, putting her second in the line of succession to the presidency.Medgar Evers will receive posthumous recognition for his work more than six decades ago fighting segregation in Mississippi in the 1960s as the NAACP's first field officer in the state. He was 37 when he was fatally shot in the driveway of his home in June 1963.
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