BUSH AWARDS PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM TO FRANKS, BREMER, TENET
Washington insider Jack Kemp, left, speaks with White House Chief of Staff Andy Card after U.S. President George W. Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom former CIA Director George Tenet, former U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer on Dec. 14, 2004. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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