Other recipients include two characters who’ve played critical roles in the business world but have since passed: Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO labor organization, and Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs, who received the award posthumously for “transforming the computer, music, film and wireless industries.” John McCain (R-AZ), Team USA soccer star Megan Rapinoe, and Sandra Lindsay, the New York nurse who was the first American to receive the COVID vaccine outside of clinical trials. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Īmong the recipients were Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, the late Sen. President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to gymnast Simone Biles, one of this years 17 recipients to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday, July 7, 2022.
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