The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Legion of Merit to Colonel (Medical Corps) Frank Y. Leaver, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States from October 1948 to April 1963.