The veteran radio host died after suffering from lung cancer, his wife, Kathryn, announced on a radio show. WATCH | Trump surprises Rush Limbaugh with honour:Trump surprises Rush Limbaugh with honour CBC News Video 2:10 U.S. President Donald Trump awards Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the state of the union address. "In my heart and soul, I know I have become the intellectual engine of the conservative movement," Limbaugh, with typical immodesty, told author Zev Chafets in the 2010 book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Limbaugh at a Make America Great Again rally on Nov. 5, 2018. In 2008, he signed an eight-year contract renewal for The Rush Limbaugh Show, a deal valued at roughly $400 million.

Source: CBC News February 17, 2021 17:36 UTC