President Joe Biden and three former presidents paid tribute Wednesday to late Veterans Administration chief and U.S. senator Max Cleland, who lost limbs while serving in Vietnam.
Biden called Cleland a hero who “exemplified the best of the American spirit.”
Former President Barack Obama said Cleland was “someone who defied impossible odds to become one of our nation’s finest public servants.”
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