CONCORD, Calif. — The U.S. interior secretary presented the nation’s oldest park ranger with a replacement presidential coin after one was stolen from her during an attack in her San Francisco Bay Area home.
KNTV reports that Secretary Sally Jewell described 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin as tough when she surprised Soskin with the coin Sunday.
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