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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta receives the Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award from Scott Bates, right, president of the Center for National Policy, and Peter Kovler, left, chairman, during the center's awards dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2012. The award honors Muskie, who died in 1996, 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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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta receives the Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award from Scott Bates, right, president of the Center for National Policy, and Peter Kovler, left, chairman, during the center's awards dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2012. The award honors Muskie, who died in 1996, 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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