WASHINGTON President Joe Biden awarded high honors to 14 police officers and local officials Friday for their work blocking Donald Trump s attempted coup two years earlier in his last-gasp effort to undo the election he had lost in 2020.

History will remember your names, Biden told the honorees and family members there to represent deceased recipients. What you did was truly consequential.

The ceremony in the White House East Room presented the Presidential Citizens Medal to current and former officers Michael Fanone, Eugene Goodman and Caroline Edwards, as well as to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the mother-daughter team of election workers in Atlanta who faced death threats after Trump repeatedly targeted them in his remarks.

Ruby and Shaye, you did not deserve what happened but you, but you do deserve the nations eternal thanks for showing the dignity and grace of we the people, Biden said.

Republican Rusty Bowers, the outgoing Arizona House speaker who was pressured by Trump to overturn the election in that state, was honored, as was Democrat Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan secretary of state who contended with threats from Trump supporters there, and Al Schmidt, who faced similar attacks as a Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia.