Nobel Peace Prize LIVE!

... be found on cspan and video and text of the speech here Below is Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, "A Just and Lasting Peace," as prepared for delivery. Scroll ...century after the United States Senate rejected the League of Nations - an idea for which Woodrow Wilson received this Prize - America led the world in constructing an architecture to keep the ...

... after the United States Senate rejected the League of Nations -- an idea for which Woodrow Wilson received this prize -- America led the world in constructing an architecture to keep the... far more than about the rest of the speech which can be found in it's entirety here... left will probably object to front loading a speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with a justification ...

Fun with Politics: Presidential Authors Edition

...of the National Endowment of the Arts. In a speech in Brooklyn last week, he said of Barack Obama... Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Hoover, Coolidge, and Wilson of having had their memoirs, autobiographies, and ... but I don’t think there are many ghosted 640-page translations around. Woodrow Wilson was a college professor and president before entering politics. Congressional Government: A Study...

Uh... wow.

...esteemed individuals. I’m sure President Obama feels honored to be in the company of President Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, and not in the same company of these presidents who achieved nothing for the...given that Carter's presidency is often viewed as a failure (malaise speech, anyone?) and he's currently rather more popular abroad than in the...

... were honored and worked. Nonetheless, Wilson continued to suffer health problems ... work improved dramatically. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson asked Josephus Daniels, Secretary ... Mayflower headed for Pueblo, Colorado, Wilson suffered a new premonitory event:... been holding Cabinet meetings without Wilson's presence. The letter dumbfounded...complained of asthma, and his speech was recovering much more slowly...

News Clips

... Roosevelt won in 1906 and President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919. Wilson received the prize for his role ... He cited Obama's United Nations speech on abolishing nuclear weapons, his shifting...president to win the award: Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in...U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, former President Jimmy Carter, ...

Obama Barred Constitutionally From Accepting Nobel?

... of the peace prize to a sitting president is not unprecedented. But Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson received the honor for their past actions: Roosevelt's efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War, and Wilson's work in establishing the League of Nations. Obama's... June 3, 2009, the day before he gave his speech in Cairo on relations with the Muslim world, he accepted...

When Nobel Prize rewarded failure

...national security. The case of Woodrow Wilson, the last sitting president...called for by this cause." Wilson realized that the award came...great parts of America President Wilson looms as the man of...and among those beaten." When Wilson received the Nobel Prize, his...been deeply inspired by President Wilson's calls for self-determination...pursue those goals. In his speech on Friday, Obama indicated that...

President Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate

...sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the first being Teddy Roosevelt (other presidents have won it, including Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter; neither was in-office at the time though). I think that we, as Americans, should be honored that he was chosen...whatever the reason. Edit: President Obama's speech concerning the award.

History - The Palmer Raids

...response Congress passed the Espionage and Seditious Acts which criminalized any act or speech against the military draft or that could be seen as disloyal. More ... General Alexander Mitchell Palmer. Palmer was already an outspoken critic of any leftist group and with President Woodrow Wilson's backing created a bureau inside the Justice Department headed by J. Edgar Hoover to investigate Americans...