Honoring a hero at the White House 43 years late
President Obama applauds members of Specialist Sabo's Company B, 3d Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division who attended Wednesday's Medal of Honor ceremony. (photo credit: Lesa Jansen, CNN)
May 16th, 2012
05:25 PM ET
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Honoring a hero at the White House 43 years late

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President Obama presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. for "conspicuous gallantry" at a ceremony Wednesday at the White House.  Sabo was killed trying to save his fellow soldiers in Cambodia in 1970 during the Vietnam War.

President Obama spoke of the nation's gratitude to all of its soldiers.

"This gathering of soldiers, past and present, could not be more timely. As a nation, we've ended the war in Iraq. We are moving towards an end to the war in Afghanistan. After a decade of war, our troops are coming home. And this month, we’ll begin to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, a time when, to our shame, our veterans did not always receive the respect and the thanks they deserved - a mistake that must never be repeated."

Specialist Sabo's honor comes 43 years after his heroic act.  (Read Specialist Sabo's story on CNN Security Clearance)
 
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It's a dog's life at the White House
First dog Bo is ready for his close up with the White House press corps as he returns from his walk.
May 16th, 2012
04:34 PM ET
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Biden to take aim at Bain
May 16th, 2012
09:30 AM ET
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Biden to take aim at Bain

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(CNN) – The Barack Obama campaign is dispatching Vice President Joe Biden to eastern Ohio Wednesday to push the president's economic record and take direct aim at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's history as a venture capitalist.

In a speech at M7 Technologies, an advanced manufacturing plant in Youngstown, Ohio, Biden will add new emphasis to the attack on Romney's tenure at Bain Capital that the Obama campaign has waged all week.

"In the 1990s, there was a steel mill in Kansas City, Missouri," Biden will say, according to advanced remarks of the speech distributed by the Obama campaign. "It had been in business since 1888. Then Romney and his partners bought the company. Eight years later it went bankrupt

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POTUS' Day Ahead: Talking small business and bestowing the Medal of Honor
May 16th, 2012
07:51 AM ET
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POTUS' Day Ahead: Talking small business and bestowing the Medal of Honor

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President Obama kicks off the day with a visit to an as-yet unidentified small business in Washington, DC where he will hold a roundtable on job creation with Small Business Administrator Karen Mills.

Back at the White House, the president will meet with congressional leaders to push his so-called “to do list” – five separate proposals the president unveiled earlier this month that have little hope of passing Congress.

Later, the president will award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. who was killed in action in Cambodia on May 10, 1970.
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