Additionally, he is presenting the honour to Frances Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, photographer Bobby Sager, and scholars Thomas Vallely and Paula Wallace.
Former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.; former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, the first female senator from Kansas; and former Rep.
Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., who pushed for gun control laws after her husband and son were shot dead, are among the other former politicians being honoured.
Biden will posthumously honour four individuals: civil rights activist and lawyer Louis Lorenzo Redding; former Delaware state judge Collins Seitz;
Former war correspondent Joseph Galloway, who wrote about the first significant battle in Vietnam in his book “We Were Soldiers.