American Cronyism expand to US Mint

Since around the late 1990s, the US Mint had minted commemorative medals in bronze or silver for collectors.  The subjects for commemoration are usually important past events, people, and places.   For example, there is a medal commemorating the Navajo Indians who were used for communicating encoded messages in  World War 2. Because their language is highly complex in grammar and sound and spoken only in America, the Navajo codes were never broken by the Japanese.  Most people would agree that this is truly worth commemorating.

Now I find this:  medals for former treasury secretaries Henry Paulson and John Snow.  I mean what the heck have they done that is worth commemorating?  They were treasury secretaries only in the past 10 years!  Not even last century!  They have the same stature as Yosemite National Park?  Unbelievable.