US President William Jefferson Clinton (center) is surrounded by the family members of US Army First Lieutenant (1LT), Henry O. Flipper, the first African American to graduate from the US Military Academy at West Point, as the President signs a document pardoning 1LT Flipper for a 1882 Army conviction for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The dishonorable discharge accompanying the conviction had been changed to honorable in 1976.