Today, it was announced that President Barack Obama will become the fourth U.S. president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He has been awarded the prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The three other presidents to be awarded this honor are:
President Jimmy Carter (2002) - for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
President Woodrow Wilson (1919) - for his Fourteen Points peace program and for having "succeeded in bringing a design for a fundamental law of humanity into present-day international politics>'
President Theodore Roosevelt (1906) - for his role in ending the 1905 war between Japan and Russia.
CNN: Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
New York Times: In surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy
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