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In Shocker, Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee today awarded the 2009 prize for Peace to US President Barack Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe Nobel Committee today awarded the 2009 prize for Peace to US President Barack Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." After only nine months on the job, the President said he was "surprised and humbled," and acknowledged the honor as "an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations." Accepting the prize as "a call to action," Obama spoke of the many "transformative figures who have been honored by this prize, men and women who have inspired [him] and inspired the entire world by their courageous pursuit of peace." We get reaction from Washington and around the world.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Michael Scherer
national political reporter, Washington Post
Ron Brownstein
Senior Editor, The Atlantic; political analyst, CNN; author
Peter Beinart
editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, author of The Beinart Notebook Substack, professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York