President Obama forgot to salute when he boarded Marine One. He later realized his mistake and went back to the Marine. Whether you like Obama or not, politics aside, you have to give him credit for realizing he made a mistake and going back to shake his hand.

According to PolitcsUSA:

The reality is that there is no law or requirement that a president has to salute the troops. In fact for 192 years, the troops were required to salute the Commander in Chief, but the president never saluted back. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Abe Lincoln, JFK, and FDR didn’t salute the troops when they saw them. Presidents weren’t supposed to salute. In a bit of stagecraft, Ronald Reagan began saluting the troops in 1981.

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