Trump to award Medal of Freedom to Elvis, Scalia, Babe Ruth, and more

Elvis Presley meets President Richard Nixon
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President Trump will award the Medal of Freedom to seven people this coming week, the White House announced Saturday.

The recipients are Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), philanthropist and GOP donor Miriam Adelson, NFL Hall of Famer and former Minnesota state Supreme Court Justice Alan C. Page, and football Hall of Famer Roger Staubach.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.