(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Rear Admiral Hazlett R. Weatherwax, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States from June 1964 to June 1966, as Director of Pan American Affairs, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; as a representative of the Navy Department while serving as Chairman and U.S. Navy Member of the U.S. Delegation to the Inter-American Defense Board; and as a member of the joint Brazilian-U.S. Defense Commission, the joint Mexican-U.S. Defense Commission, and the Permanent Board on Defense of Canada and the United States.