Article: Medal of Freedom for President Hinckley

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 ...

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