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President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
According to CNN.com:
President Obama said Friday that he was “surprised and deeply humbled” by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
he committee said it honored Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Obama said he viewed the decision less as a recognition of his own accomplishments and more as “a call to action.”
The decision appeared to catch most observers by surprise. Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1, only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president.
Obama had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, announced that the president was the winner.
The Nobel committee recognized Obama’s efforts at dialogue to solve complex global problems, including working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
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