Sex, Drugs, Music, Mud

Woodstock at 40.

BY P.J. O'Rourke

August 31, 2009, Vol. 14, No. 46

Did the White House know anything about Mary Robinson before she was selected for the nation's highest civilian honor -- the Presidential Medal of Freedom? There's no rule that says an administration can't choose a controversial figure to receive the honor, but it's hard to believe the administration intended to provoke this controversy. To what end?

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