President Obama delivers remarks at Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony
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- News Source: Washington Post | 29 days agoAnd there sat President Obama, whose stunning electoral journey to the White House seemed no more improbable than the one made four decades earlier by the 90-year-old man who sat beside him, a black Protestant Republican who won in the overwhelmingly...
- News Source: Miami Herald | 29 days agoPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday bestowed one of the nation's highest awards on former Sen. Edward Brooke Wednesday, calling Brooke -- the first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote -- a trailblazer whose path he followed. Brooke,...
- News Source: USA Today | 29 days agoThe nation's first popularly elected African-American senator accepted the Congressional Gold Medal at the Capitol on Wednesday and lectured both parties to work together to solve problems. Flanked by House and Senate leaders from both parties,...
- News Source: Inquirer.net | 29 days agoUS President Barack Obama paid tribute on Wednesday to fellow political trailblazer Edward Brooke, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the Senate by popular vote...Brooke, who served as a Republican from 1967 to 1979, was the...
- News Source: Washington Post | 29 days agoAnd let me begin by acknowledging this distinguished group gathered on the platform: our extraordinary Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi; Majority Leader Harry Reid; Republican leader Mitch McConnell; majority leader Steny Hoyer; Republican leader...
- News Source: Voice of America | 29 days agoPast and present members of Congress joined to pay tribute to Edward Brooke. Among them: President Barack Obama, the third African-American popularly elected to the Senate...Mr. Obama said Brooke's path to the Senate was unlikely. He told the story...
- Blog Source: the44diaries.wordpress.comIn the US Capitol rotunda, Obama presented Brooke, 90, with the Congressional gold medal, the highest civilian award given by the government's legislative branch. “Today's honor bears a unique significance: bestowed by this body of ...
- Blog Source: www.whoispresident.comIt is a great privilege to be here today as we confer the Congressional Gold Medal on a man who's spent his life breaking barriers and bridging divides across this country -- Senator Edward Brooke. Now, with his lifetime of achievement, ...
- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comPresident Barack Obama is hailing Edward Brooke, who made history 43 years ago as the first black man elected by popular vote to the US Senate.
- Blog Source: www.obamachronicles.orgEdward Brooke, the first African-American elected to the US Senate by popular vote, was honored Wednesday with a Congressional Gold Medal.
- Blog Source: www.bookerrising.netEdward Brooke, the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, was honored today with a Congressional Gold Medal. "At a time when so many doors were closed to African-Americans, others might have become angry or ...
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comThe president on Wednesday was on Capitol Hill as Brooke, now 90 years old, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. The honor is Congress' highest form of appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions to society. Obama ...
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