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President Bush Attends Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony for Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey
President George W. Bush delivers remarks Wednesday, April 23, 2008, during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey at the U.S. Capitol. In honoring the 99-year-old Chancellor Emeritus of the Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center, President Bush said, "Dr. DeBakey has an impressive resume, but his truest legacy is not inscribed on a medal or etched into stone. It is written on the human heart. His legacy is the unlost hours with family and friends who are still with us because of his healing touch. His legacy is grandparents who lived to see their grandchildren. His legacy is holding the fragile and sacred gift of human life in his hands -- and returning it unbroken." White House photo by Chris Greenberg
President George W. Bush delivers remarks Wednesday, April 23, 2008, during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey at the U.S. Capitol. In honoring the 99-year-old Chancellor Emeritus of the Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center, President Bush said, "Dr. DeBakey has an impressive resume, but his truest legacy is not inscribed on a medal or etched into stone. It is written on the human heart. His legacy is the unlost hours with family and friends who are still with us because of his healing touch. His legacy is grandparents who lived to see their grandchildren. His legacy is holding the fragile and sacred gift of human life in his hands -- and returning it unbroken." White House photo by Chris Greenberg Full Story
President George W. Bush delivers remarks Wednesday, April 23, 2008, during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey at the U.S. Capitol. In honoring the 99-year-old Chancellor Emeritus of the Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center, President Bush said, "Dr. DeBakey has an impressive resume, but his truest legacy is not inscribed on a medal or etched into stone. It is written on the human heart. His legacy is the unlost hours with family and friends who are still with us because of his healing touch. His legacy is grandparents who lived to see their grandchildren. His legacy is holding the fragile and sacred gift of human life in his hands -- and returning it unbroken." White House photo by Chris Greenberg
President George W. Bush offers his hand to Dr. Michael DeBakey Wednesday, April 23, 2008, after honoring the 99-year-old pioneer of bypass heart surgery during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
President George W. Bush presents the Congressional Gold Medal to famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey during a ceremony Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the U.S. Capitol. Said the President, "For nearly a hundred years, our country has been blessed with the endless talents and dedication of Dr. Michael DeBakey. And he has dedicated his career to a truly noble ambition -- bettering the life of his fellow man." White House photo by Chris Greenberg
President George W. Bush meets with The Johns Hopkins Hospital Organ Donors and Recipients Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in the Oval Office of the White House. Said the President after, "I was pleased today to meet with organ donors, medical professionals, and organ recipients -- all of whom participated in a historic six-recipient kidney transplant, in which six patients received new organs from six unrelated living donors. This history-making medical event took place three weeks ago at Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. These people are all first-hand witnesses to the gift of life—or in this case, "lives." White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
President George W. Bush speaks to representatives from the Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week Conference Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in the East Room of the White House. The President told his audience, "I love it when people can say, I have a idea, and I am going to apply all my talent and all my effort to see the idea come to fruition. It is what made us great in the past, it's what makes us great today, and what is going to make us great in the future." White House photo by Patrick Tierney
 
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