Obama Gives Retiring Gates Medal of Freedom

President Obama today honored outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ four decades of service, including the past 4 1/2 years in charge of the Pentagon, by surprising him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US honor a president can give a civilian. “I can think of no better way…

Excerpt from:
Obama Gives Retiring Gates Medal of Freedom

Posted by on June 30, 2011. Filed under News, World News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.