Pelosi Among 19 to Get Presidential Medal of Freedom From Biden

Clarence B. Jones says he thought a prankster was on the line when he answered the telephone and heard the person on the other end say they were calling from the White House.

Jones is among a diverse group of 19 individuals to be honored Friday by the Democratic president for making what the White House said are "exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors." Seven politicians are among the recipients: former New York mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; former Sen. Elizabeth Dole; climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore; Biden's former climate envoy, John Kerry; former Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who died in 2013; and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Pelosi is the first and only woman ever elected to the speaker's post, putting her second in the line of succession to the presidency. Jim Thorpe, who died in 1953, was the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. — Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space and the second female director of NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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