President Biden will award the Presidential Residents Medal, one of many nation’s highest civilian honors, to twenty folks on Thursday afternoon, together with former Consultant Liz Cheney and two shut private advisers, Ted Kaufman and Christopher J. Dodd.
The recipients the president chosen to be honored in his final medal ceremony have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens,” the White Home stated in a press release on Thursday.
It isn’t uncommon for a president’s private esteem to affect the recipients of presidential medals, that are accredited by way of a much less formalized course of than different awards like Medals of Honor or acts of clemency like pardons and commutations. A number of of Mr. Biden’s choices are fellow lawmakers he has identified and labored with for many years, and some are from his dwelling state, Delaware.
However the bestowing of presidential medals can be a chance for a president to showcase those that have fought for causes he championed. The number of Ms. Cheney, a Wyoming Republican whose vocal opposition to Donald J. Trump price her her political profession, was a continuation of his push for bipartisanship and decency in politics at a time when Ms. Cheney’s personal celebration has turned towards her. Mr. Biden is alleged to have been contemplating a pre-emptive pardon to guard her from retribution by the subsequent administration.
In a press release, the White Home praised Ms. Cheney for working throughout the aisle.
“Throughout two decades in public service, including as a congresswoman for Wyoming and vice chair of the committee on the Jan. 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice — and reached across the aisle — to defend our nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency,” the White Home stated. “Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible if we work together.”
Mr. Biden’s decisions additionally mirror the causes he has fought for whereas in workplace. A number of are outstanding advocates who over lengthy careers labored to advance homosexual rights, girls’s rights, desegregation and most cancers analysis.
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