Calling him a "visionary" and "one of the greatest figures of his generation," President Donald Trump on Oct. 14 posthumously awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom to slain conservative activist and Arizonan Charlie Kirk.
During a ceremony held in the newly revamped Rose Garden at the White House, Trump presented the award to Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, on what would have been her husband's 32nd birthday. Shortly after Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination in Utah, both chambers of Congress approved resolutions making Oct. 14 a National Day of Remembrance .