[applause] >> on behalf of george herrmann, babe ruth, mr. thomas stevens. [applause] him -- on behalf of elvis aaron presley, mr. jeff soden. [applause] ♪ ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. trump. [hail to the chief plays] [applause] president trump: thank you very much. please. it's a great honor. melania and i are thrilled to welcome you to the white house as we honor the recipients of our nation's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. something very, very special. we're joined today by many members of my administration including secretary of state mike pompeo, hello, mike. steve mnuchin. steve, thank you very much. wilbur ross. alex acosta. matt whittaker. ben carson. betsy devos. administrator linda mcmahon. ambassador lighthizer. and acting administrator who i will tell you is going to be made permanent, he's done a fantastic job, i want to congratulate him, e.p.a. andrew wheeler. congratulations andrew, great job. thank you very much. [applause] thank you as well to senator amy klobuchar for being he

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staff and in 1943 he was sent to russia to serve as the senior military commander for ambassador herrmann. when i visited i got some great pictures to put in the book and this is a classic. this is the first day at west point, you can just imagine what he's being put through contracting's graduation 1942, i almost said 20% death rate during the war, i think it was 1927 but one in five. the first class to graduate, so there was a luck factor. handsome guy there is and he? >> general dean is on the right as a lieutenant colonel. he's a battalion commander, less than three years from his graduation date he went from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in less than three years. this is also part of his reason why he moved up so fast, in world war ii. he was born, his service in the army came up the perfect time . >> next slide >> this is an interesting story , he becomes like a walter mitty, he's always popping up whenever there's a crisis, he happens to be there. this is a picture in berlin, right after the berlin wall went up they did a tv show in 1961 the berlin wall and there's dean t

on behalf of george herrmann "babe ruth" mr. thomas stevens. on behalf of elvis aaron presley, mr.. ♪ ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. trump. ♪ >> thank you very much. please. it's a great honor. melania and i will thrilled to welcome you to the white house. as we honor the recipients of our nation's highest civilian honor. the presidential medal of freedom. something very, very special. we're joined today by many members of my administration, including secretary of state mike pompeo. hello, mike. steve mnuchin. steve, thank you very much. wilbur ross. alex acosta. matt whitaker. ben carson. betsy devos. administrator linda mcmann. ambassador lighthouser and acting administrator who i will tell you is going to be made permanent, he's done a fantastic job and i want to congratulate him, epa adam wheeler. where is he? congratulations, adam. great job. great job. thank you very much. thank you, as well, to senator amy klobuchar for being here. where is amy, by the way? where is amy? i did it before, amy. and five decades, the presidential medal of free