What was a the scene in Patton when he tells Bradley that if he were promoted to Admiral in the Turkish Navy his aides would no doubt be able to retrieve the appropriate insignia from their bags and pin them on? I bet Biden’s aides had a carton of Silver Stars to hand out.
“I bet Biden’s aides had a carton of Silver Stars to hand out.”
Didn’t the powers that be afforded LBJ the same sort of treatment during World War II? IIRC, it was some perfectly safe (and useless) mission that he flew on and he ended up earning a Silver Star for it.