President Bush awarded Leonard Garment, one of President Richard Nixon’s top Jewish advisers, a National Medal of Arts. Garment, 81, was Nixon’s law partner in private practice and joined his administration in 1969 as a counsel, dealing with the arts, among other issues.
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