Remarks of President Barack Obama: Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize
Time Magazine - Thu Dec 10, 8:18 am ETHere are President Obama's remarks on Thursday Dec. 10, 2009
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Here are President Obama's remarks on Thursday Dec. 10, 2009
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STOCKHOLM — A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes on Thursday, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading.
WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He’s the laureate who says he doesn’t deserve the award. He’s not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billion from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana’s U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is “highly qualified” but eventually withdrew her nomination.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The folks who sneaked into the president’s state dinner are part of a long tradition of people showing up as they please at the People’s House. It’s just that the tradition vanished ages ago.
EDITOR’S NOTE — An occasional look at assertions by government officials and how well they adhere to the facts.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.
Obama: Afghan troop drawdown schedule is firm OSLO, Norway (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the United States will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2011 even if the exact pace and details of the movements will depend on conditions at th
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan and is planning to bolster the training of Pakistan’s forces in a key border battleground where militants fuel the escalating Afghan insurgency, according to U.S. officials.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as he prepares to argue for action at the international climate conference, President Barack Obama is getting some reminders of the domestic political divide — and anxiety — over climate change.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Lynn Giese calls Sarah Palin the best thing that’s happened to the U.S. in a long time, and the 57-year-old housewife says she’d work tirelessly for the former Alaska governor were she to run for president in 2012.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Keeping faith with the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Senate voted Friday to preserve within its health overhaul bill a long-term care insurance program to help seniors and the disabled avoid nursing homes.