More than a score of Senators and Representatives attended the posthumous presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday by President Johnson to Mrs. Hebert H. Lehman, widow of the late former New York Governor and Senator.
Sen. Lehman, who had distinguished himself equally in general and Jewishser-vice, was to have received the award with 30 other distinguished Americans last December 6. However, he died suddenly on December 5 while preparing for the trip to Washington.
“It is altogether fitting that in special ceremony, we present Herbert Lehman’s Medal of Freedom to the one person who shared his life and his hope, his triumphs and disappointments, who was always with him in sunshine and shadow,” the President said in making the presentation at a ceremony in the White House.
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