(15 Feb 2011) HEADLINE: Raw video: Obama honors 15 with Medal of Freedom
CAPTION: President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civil honor to a former U.S. president and a basketball legend, along with several others, for their contributions to society in a ceremony at the White House Tuesday. (Feb. 15)
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Location: Washington
Video source: White House pool.
No script.
President Barack Obama SOT: "This is one of the things that I most look forward to every year. It's a chance to meet with -- and, more importantly, honor -- some of the most extraordinary people in America -- and around the world.
President Kennedy once said, during a tribute to the poet Robert Frost, that a nation reveals itself not only by the men and women it produces, but by the men and women that it honors; the people that it remembers. I heartily agree. When you look at the men and women who are here today, it says something about who we are as a people.
When we award this medal to a Congressman John Lewis, it says that we aspire to be a more just, more equal, more perfect union. When we award it to a Jasper Johns, it says we value the original and the imaginative. When we award it to a Warren Buffett, it says we'd all like to be so humble and wise -- and maybe make a little money along the way. (Laughter.) And when we award it to former President George H.W. Bush, it says we celebrate an extraordinary life of service and of sacrifice."
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