WWII Navajo Code Talkers Honored at White House

(L-R) President Donald Trump hosts Fleming Begaye, Thomas Begay, and Peter MacDonald, Navajo Code Talkers from World War II, in the Oval Office at the White House on Nov. 27. Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—Three of the 13 surviving Navajo Code Talkers of World War II met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Nov. 27.

Speaking at the event, Peter MacDonald, 90, president of the surviving code talkers, said he enlisted in the Marine Corps to become a code talker in 1944, when he was 15.