WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation’s highest civilian honor, the White Home stated.
It was the primary time throughout his 4 years in workplace that Biden awarded the medal “with distinction,” it stated.
Biden this week canceled his journey to Rome, the place he was on account of meet the pope in individual, to supervise the federal response to the lethal fires in California.