NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Al Gore, former vice president and United States Senator from Tennessee, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

President Biden on Friday will give the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people - with recipients covering nearly every corner of American life.

President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 individuals on Friday at a White House ceremony, including ...

Other notable names awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom include former Secretary of State John Kerry, Clarence B. Jones ...

Six months before the election, the president selected a list of awardees heavy with political allies like Nancy Pelosi, ...

(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) FILE - Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, speaks at the opening of the U.S.

President Joe Biden named 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Friday morning.

former Vice President Al Gore, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Elizabeth Dole and recent Biden ...

After unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 1988, Gore served eight years as the 45th vice ...

The White House pointedly noted that climate campaigner Gore, who served under Bill Clinton and narrowly lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, had "accepted the outcome of a disputed presidential ...

Florida is ready to repeal what’s left of a 16-year-old law that makes climate change a priority in energy policy decisions.

Gore was President Bill Clinton’s vice president for two terms from 1993 to 2001 and helped elevate climate change as a major ...