Obama isn’t the first president to take heat over saluting

President Obama isn't the first chief executive to take flak for how he returned a salute, but he is the latest. With Obama's returned salute – with coffee cup in hand – to a Marine Tuesday still reverberating on social media, the USA TODAY video above gives a brief overview of recent presidential salutes.

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