Just imagine...

...if they'd run this on the front page of the New York Times in the election of 1956. (Not that they would have dared. They would also have been strung up from the nearest lightpole...)

Note the conspicuous lack of fruit salad on his chest, especially when compared to any officer these days, let alone one with five stars on his epaulets. My embedded New Orleans reporter says they're the DSM with 2 oak leaf clusters (Army), Navy DSM, and the Legion of Merit. He also notes of those beribboned officers that they have "so much salad on their chest you want to put balsamic vinegrette on them and have lunch".