Surprising everyone — including the guest of honor — President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction at a surprise sendoff event on Thursday.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden practice their putting on the White House putting green on April 24, 2009.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden wait for their lunch during an unannounced visit to Rays’ Hell Burger in Arlington, Va., on May 5, 2009.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden participate in a “Let’s Move!” video taping on the Colonnade of the White House, Feb. 21, 2014
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President Obama and Vice President Biden are pictured on stage before Obama signed the Middle Class Working Families Task Force executive order in the East Room of the White House, January 30, 2009.
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Vice President Biden reacts to President Obama during the latter’s final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on January 12, 2016.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden high-five after watching Sasha Obama and Maisy Biden play in a basketball game in Chevy Chase, Md., Feb. 27, 2010.
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Then-Senator Obama and then-Senator Biden buy ice cream during an August campaign stop at Windmill Ice Cream Shop in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania while campaigning ahead of the 2008 presidential election.
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The President and First Lady joke with the Vice President and Dr. Biden in the Blue Room of the White House before the National Governors Association Dinner, Feb. 2013.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden share a laugh in the Oval Office July 21, 2014.
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President Obama hugs Vice President Biden after delivering a eulogy during the funeral mass for the Vice President’s son Beau Biden at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden walk around the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, July 24, 2011.