Obama nominates John Kerry as secretary of state

Kerry first shot to prominence in April 1971 when he testified to the Senate committee he would later lead, and famously asked: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

Earlier, during his second 48-day tour in Vietnam, Kerry was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for valor for his work as a lieutenant in charge of dangerous “Swift” gunboat missions in the Mekong Delta.

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