>"Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken
>and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an
>extraordinary conference.
>I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials
>who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was
>around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal
>of Honor winner. It's good to see you.
>The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an
>enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the
>Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its
>recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name
>of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor."

>Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient.
>He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest
>civilian honor, in August. Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the
>mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of
>Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded
>the latter to Crow.