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  • 2017-01-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Did President Obama Award Himself a Distinguished Public Service Medal? (en)
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  • On 4 January 2017, Breitbart published an article reporting that President Obama had awarded himself a distinguished service medal: The Breitbart piece linked to an Associated Press article describing the President's receiving a medal bestowed not by himself, but by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter: The Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service is presented to those deemed to have provided exceptionally distinguished service of significance to the Department of Defense. The Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service's (DCPAS) page about the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service describes the medal as follows: Although the Department of Defense (DoD) is part of the executive branch, the President himself does not play a part in the nomination or approval process for recipients of the DoD's Medal for Distinguished Public Service: Previous recipients of the medal include former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Steven Spielberg, and Henry Kissinger. Despite Breitbart's statements that commenters were incredulous at the award, likened it to a much maligned 'participation medal' and were skeptical of Obama’s underling giving his own boss a medal, no similar comments seem to have been noted by Breitbart when President George W. Bush received the very same medal in January 2009, nor did we find any record that Breitbart (or any other source) published a President Bush Awards Himself Distinguished Public Service Medal article upon that occasion. (en)
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