The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting a Second Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Third Award of the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant General David Ayres Depue Ogden (ASN: 0-12051), United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duties of great responsibility from January 1953 to March 1955 and from May 1955 to October 1957.