MultiVu Digital Center Feed: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Joins Lt. General Brent Scowcroft in Awarding the Marshall Medal to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates

MultiVu Digital Center Feed: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Joins Lt. General Brent Scowcroft in Awarding the Marshall Medal to Secretary
of Defense Robert M. Gates

FORMAT: Soundbites

STORY SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of State, in conjunction with the George
C. Marshall Foundation, commemorates the 50th anniversary of George C.
Marshall's legacy. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joins others in
awarding Secretary Gates the Marshall Foundation Award for his distinguished
career in public service.

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SOUNDBITES:

Clip 1 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State on the genesis of the
Marshall Plan
Verbatim: When General Marshall first described the outlines of what would
become the Marshall Plan in a speech at Harvard in 1947, he urged Americans to
embrace a policy directed not against any country or doctrine, but against
hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. He knew how much he was asking of a
nation scarred and exhausted by years of war. The aid we gave to Europe under
the Marshall Plan would, as a percentage of national income, amount to more
than $500 billion today. As he said in closing that day, with "a willingness
on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history
has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and
will be overcome."

Thanks to George Marshall's leadership, those challenges were overcome in that
time. The Marshall Plan was as bold and visionary a demonstration of American
leadership as any in our history. And it is a model today as we face up to
our own vast responsibility.

Clip 2 - Lt. General Brent Scowcroft awards the Marshall Foundation Medal to
Robert M. Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense (no verbatim)

Clip 3 - Robert M. Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense, accepts the Marshall
Medal

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/PRNewswire -- Oct. 16/
SOURCE U.S. Department of State