The decision makes President Obama, son of an American woman and Kenyan father, the youngest U.S. president to win the prize and the third, after Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt and Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson, to do so while in office. Mr. Obama's win comes 45 years after the prize was awarded...
News Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Barack Obama's selection as this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize just nine months into his presidency stunned people in San Diego County and across the globe Friday. The news dominated conversations from statehouses to coffee shops, with...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Normally the prize has been presented, even controversially, for accomplishment. This prize, to a 48-year-old freshman president, for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” seemed a kind of...
News Source: The Hindustan Times
| about 1 month ago
US President Barack Obama has decided to donate his about $1.4 million Nobel Peace prize money to charities. However, no decision has been made which charities or charity would get the prize money which the President would receive from the Nobel...
News Source: The Economic Times
| about 1 month ago
Oct 2009, 0445 hrs IST, Manoj Nair , ET Bureau Text: Barack Obama must be preparing another acceptance speech after becoming the youngest serving American president to win the Nobel Prize for peace and the third after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for �his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples�. The first African-American to hold his country�s highest office, Obama has called for disarmament...
OSLO, Norway. - The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize says it decided to give that prize to President Barack Obama to "promote what he stands for" and for the "positive processes" that he's started. ...
US President Barack Obama was named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday: "For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." extra description.
How many beers at the White House did the One have to promise to get this trinket. What would T.R. say? dean_acheson on October 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM. my first thoughts from the headlines post…. M E M O R A N D U M. To: Nobel Peace Prize ...
The President of USA Barack Obama received the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize today. According to the Nobel Committee he achieved it for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. ...
Friday morning it was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee that President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize, making him only the third sitting U.S. president to win the honorable distinction (Theodore Roosevelt was ...
Well, well, well....: President Barack Obama made history again Friday, winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples The Norwegian Nobel ...
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