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Yoder was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Two Purple Hearts in World War II
The first White House Christmas tree was decorated by the Benjamin Harrison family in 1889. Since then there has been a Christmas tree in the White House each year with the exception of Theodore Roosevelt's tenure. He had strong conservationist views
He felt that he couldn’t explain why he was awarded the medal so it would be a continuous source of embarrassment. An iconoclastic individual, Berg turned down the medal, apparently the only person to have ever done so. His exploits for which he was recognized included photographing Tokyo Harbor and determining that the Nazi’s were no far advanced in the development of the atomic bomb. He was the agent who was to assassinate Werner Heisenberg the German nuclear physicist if there was any significant progress towards a working bomb. He determined that is was not necessary by pretending to be a European scientist and actually interviewing Heisenberg and many other European scientists in Nazi occupied Europe.
Rockefeller was himself an art lover and collector.