contrast do you want to cut away? a contrast, to the medal ceremony. we ll come back, because these people deserve the honor. we don t. the president. 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 say 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 congressman john lewis, it says