President Biden honors longtime friend Chris Dodd with Presidential Citizens Medal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "From advancing childcare, to reforming our financial markets, to fostering partnerships across the Western Hemisphere -- he has stood watch over America as a beacon to the world," said Biden's brief statement on his longtime friend, Dodd. Other medal recipients on Thursday included former three-term U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, who was a Democratic presidential candidate after a Hall of Fame basketball career at Princeton and the New York Knickerbockers; and Mary Bonauto, an attorney and activist who advocated the legalization of same-sex marriage in New England, focusing on Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine.
47% : The late Louis Lorenzo Redding, the first Black lawyer admitted to the Delaware bar, where he worked against segregation; Bobby Sager, a photographer and philanthropist; the late Collins J. Seitz, who as a Delaware state judge, ordered the integration of a white public school; Eleanor Smeal, an advocate for women's rights in the 1970s whom Biden said was instrumental in the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.

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