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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, center, walks with Scott Bates, left, president of the Center for National Policy, and Peter Kovler, chairman, before the center's awards dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2012. During the dinner, Panetta received the Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award, which honors the late Muskie for his service in the Navy, as governor of Maine, as U.S. senator and as U.S. secretary of state.

PUBLIC SERVICE WALK

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, center, walks with Scott Bates, left, president of the Center for National Policy, and Peter Kovler, chairman, before the center's awards dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2012. During the dinner, Panetta received the Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award, which honors the late Muskie for his service in the Navy, as governor of Maine, as U.S. senator and as U.S. secretary of state.

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