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Bush Ties Peace Prize Record
With the selection of the International Committee on Climate Change and Al Gore, Jr., for this years Nobel Peace Prize, President Bush has moved into the record book for most Peace Prizes awarded to Americans during their presidency.His Presidency is tied with three others for most Americans winning the Award! Previous American Presidents to share multiple peace prizes during their Presidency were Ronald Reagan, Richard M. Nixon and Herbert Hoover. On a side note, I personally think that Al Gores more prize-worthy accomplishment was his invention of the internets, not his advocacy on global-warming. The internet has brought people together and helped to tear down borders in a way that was unimaginable a decade ago when he came up with the idea for a network of tubes connecting computers. Alas, they dont let me vote! I know we're not supposed to post other blogs, but this was too good to pass up, if only for the headline. Even more interesting is the cast of Peace Prize winners. It doesn't look like things have changed much since Hoover's time when the award went to Frank Kellogg of the oh-so-successful Kellog-Briand Pact, Jane Addams, bleeding heart social worker, and Nicholas Murray Butler, Nazi sympathising president of Columbia University. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 |
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