Dolly Parton says she turned down Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump twice
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
Dolly Parton arrives at the 51st annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Las Vegas.Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
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Country music legend Dolly Parton says she was offered the Presidential Medial of Freedom twice by President Donald Trump, but turned it down both times.
Parton appears on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday for a virtual interview with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, who asked the “9 to 5″ singer about the time President Barack Obama said his “biggest mistake” in office was not giving Parton the Medal of Freedom.
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The Eckerd College course teaches students about togetherness with the aid of a country icon
Eckerd College professor Grace Lager specializes in public speaking, communication theory, media studies, and gender studies. Now, she also specializes in another subject: Dolly Parton. Via a course taught at the liberal arts college in St. Petersburg, Florida, students can learn about the country icon’s impact on people’s ability to best relate to each other.
“We had a lot of things going on in our country,” Leger notes to the Tampa Bay Times. “These are issues that our students want to talk about and need to talk about, and it’s uncomfortable. But music seems to be a salve.”
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