The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Commander (SC) Arnold Weiss, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States from 23 December 1957 to 31 December 1961 while serving with the Military Medical Supply Agency, and from 1 January 1962 to 1 October 1962 while serving with its successor activity, the Defense Medical Supply Center. Adhering to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, Commander Weiss, as Director of the Purchase Department during these periods, displayed exceptional skill as a negotiator in extremely complex procurements of medical supplies for all elements of the Department of Defense and, when requested, for other government agencies and departments. Despite the continuous pressure directed at him by the majority of the leading manufacturers of a major industry, he consistently exercised fortitude and an unremitting devotion to duty as guardian of the public monies entrusted to his expenditure, resulting in direct savings to the government of millions of dollars. In addition, through his expert testimony before a federal grand jury and in a Federal Trade Commission hearing, his assistance to committees of the Congress, and his personal intercession with the heads of many of the large corporations with which he dealt, he was instrumental in bringing about a basic change in the industry’s pricing policies which should ensure continued savings which should ensure continued savings to the Department of Defense and to other departments of the government of the United States.