President Donald Trump has propounded his first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and they include the trouble of a major Republican Party donor, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. biography, Elvis Presley, and Babe Ruth.
Trump will also posthumously ratify the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Medals are accepted to Miriam Adelson, a doctor and wife of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a Republican provider; Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is retiring after more than 41 years in the U.S. Senate; prehistoric Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and Alan Page, who founded a legal career after leaving the NFL.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the realm’s highest honor for a civilian.