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Friends, Colleagues Remember Walter Cronkite

Sep. 9, 2009
CBS honored Walter Cronkite on Wednesday with a memorial service at Lincoln Center. The event included presentations by President Obama, former President Clinton, NBC's Tom Brokaw and others.
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch