by Zach Mayo and Louis Fernandez
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![Michael Jordan showed his appreciation to Dean Smith in this 2007 ceremony in Chapel Hill. (Photo by Zeke Smith, Creative Commons)](https://carolinaconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/716px-MichaelJordanDeanSmith-e1385393393794-300x162.jpg)
You don’t have to be a college basketball brainiac to know that retired UNC basketball coach Dean Smith represented excellence.
On Wednesday, Smith was recognized on the national level when President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Carolina Connection’s Louis Fernandez and Zach Mayo were at the White House to take it all in.
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