Joe has medals:
Biden presents Presidential Medal of Freedom to Simone Biles, Gabrielle Giffords and 14 others
... The president took the time to recognize each recipient individually, sharing their contributions to the country and the world, starting with Biles.
"When we see her compete, we see unmatched, unmatched power and determination, grace and daring," the president said. "A trailblazer and a role model, when she stands on the podium, we see what she is — absolute courage to turn personal pain into greater purpose, to stand up and speak for those who cannot stand for herself. Today, she adds to her medal count of 32 — how are you going to find room? — 32 Olympic and world championship medals."

At 25 the youngest recipient ever.
The president also had words of praise for McCain, with whom he served in the Senate....
I guess, for the totality of his life, but he really pissed me off at times.
Sister Simone Campbell
A member of the Sisters of Social Service, Campbell advocates for immigration reform and economic justice.
Julieta García
García is the former president of The University of Texas at Brownsville.
Gabrielle Giffords
Giffords is a former member of Congress who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, and has since dedicated her life to gun violence prevention.
Fred Gray
Gray is a civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr.
Steve Jobs
Jobs, who revolutionized global communication and computing as a co-founder of Apple, died in 2011.
Father Alexander Karloutsos
Karloutsos was formerly the Vicar General of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and has advised multiple U.S. presidents.
Khizr Khan
Khan is the Gold Star father who criticized Trump in a speech at the 2016 Democratic convention.
Not that I'm opposed to rubbing TRE45ON's nose in it, but is that sufficient?
Sandra Lindsay
Lindsay is a New York nurse who served on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She was also "the first American to be administered an FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine." Not sure about Joe's remarks, but I see this as a medal for all pandemic nurses and other medical staff.
Diane Nash
Nash organized key civil rights campaigns during segregation.
Megan Rapinoe
Rapinoe, an Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion as a member of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, has advocated for gender pay equality and LBGTQ+ rights.
Alan Simpson
Simpson was a U.S. senator from Wyoming for 18 years.
Richard Trumka
Trumka led the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor coalition, for more than a decade before he died last year.
Plus the UMW before that. As a radical lefty and treehugger I didn't like everything he did, but he had a helluva career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_T ... _president
... In March 2013, Trumka confirmed that organized labor would make an effort to work more closely with groups trying to aid immigrant workers, as the national debate on minimum wage and fair employment in the restaurant industry heated up.
On August 15, 2017, a few days after the Unite the Right rally and then U.S. President Donald Trump's broadly criticized statements, Trumka quit the president's "manufacturing council" and published a statement, which included the following:
We cannot sit in a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism. [...] President Trump's remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis, [...] We must resign on behalf of America's working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups. ...
Wilma Vaught
Brigadier General Wilma Vaught broke barriers for women in the military, and was one of only seven female generals across the Armed Forces when she retired in 1985, according to the White House.
Meh, important woman/fish in a filthy pond.
Raúl Yzaguirre
A civil rights advocate, Yzaguirre was the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic under former President Barack Obama.
O Really's people, maybe even young activist companeros.