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Article: Medal of Freedom for President Hinckley
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2004
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LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley will be awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civil honor --
by President Bush during ceremonies Wednesday at the White House.
That date is also President Hinckley's 94th birthday.
He is one of a dozen recipients on the president's 2004 honors
list, which includes Pope John Paul II, who received the award on a
visit by President Bush June 4 at the Vatican. Among the other
luminaries to be honored are actresses Doris Day and Rita Moreno,
golf pro Arnold Palmer and Gilbert Grosvenor, board chairman of the
National Geographic Society.
Word of President Hinckley's award came in an announcement from
the White House late Friday ...