https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...medal-freedom/

Got to love the Orrin Hatch rationale, "He has led the way in confirming qualified judges throughout the Federal judiciary in order to protect our constitutional order, and has championed religious liberty, fought against communism, and stood on the side of freedom around the world." Now doesn't that qualify just about anyone who has been a Senator for at least a decade?

Elvis Presley, obviously a bone for the older white Red State voters

Babe Ruth, no clue, seems as if he was due it would have been done long before this

Others deserve recognition, but Hatch, Elvis and the Babe, seems as if they ran out of "safe" recipients who would out stage Trump