President Joe Biden closed out his last full week as president on Jan. 17 by accepting the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ highest award.
The nonpartisan organization’s Award for Distinguished Public Service recognizes an individual’s “outstanding and meritorious public service” to U.S. cities.
Addressing the conference’s winter meeting in Washington, Biden said he was honored to receive the award from “an organization of character and consequence.”
“This is one of the last events that I’ll be doing as president,” he noted. “The reason I chose to be here is because of the first thing I did as president was to speak to this conference.”...
