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Biden Restores Importance to Medal of Freedom, Announces 17 Recipients Including John McCain, Gabby Giffords, Denzel Washington, Simone Biles, Steve Jobs

By Roger Friedman

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Joe Biden has restored the importance of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Next Thursday he’s handing out 17 new medals to people who actually deserve it.

They include late Senator John McCain, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, multiple Oscar and Tony winning actor Denzel Washington, Olympic athlete Simone Biles, and late Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Other honorees include former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), Sisters of Social Service member Simone Campbell, former University of Texas at Brownsville President Julieta García, former Vicar General of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Alexander Karloutsos, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, civil rights attorney Fred Gray, Sandra Lindsay, a nurse who was the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founding member Diane Nash, brigadier general Wilma Vaught and civil rights advocate Raúl Yzaguirre.

During the prior administration, Donald Trump made a mockery of the process, giving out awards to top donors to his campaign as well as clowns like Jim Jordan.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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