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" You were a nobody," President George H.W. Bush said as he read the Medal of Freedom citation to Lech Walesa. "But Lenin and Stalin have been disproved, not by Presidents or Princes, but by the likes of an electrician from Gdansk and his fellow workers in a brave union called Solidarity." Walesa bowed his head and touched his heart fighting back tears as he listened to the President's speech.