Norman Borlaug

[cema]

A Nobel Peace prize laureate. Now also a recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal.

"The greatest living American."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregg-easterbrook/greatest-living-american-_b_56665.html

And a rather idiotic thread of comments, which, alas, is not surprising. I hope these are just high school boys.

Comments

[mtyukanov.livejournal.com]

A Congressional Gold Medal. Medal of Honor is an exclusively military award.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Right. I was thinking about something else (work, perhaps) when writing it. Will fix it now.