Dave Thomas is posthumously awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

[speedracer]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030718-2.html

 

[Tizer]

I've read it and I still have no idea who he is.

 

[sulawesigirl4]

Is he the Wendy's guy?

 

[pax]

He is. He spearheaded a large adoption initiative, which I believe focused on older children and minority children who are often more difficult to adopt. He was a very good man--an adopted child himself, incidentally.