President Obama: JFK 2017 Profile in Courage Winner

Tenacious D · Mar 3, 2017

From the announcement:

"President Kennedy called on a new generation of Americans to give their talents to the service of the country,” said Ambassador Kennedy. “With exceptional dignity and courage, President Obama has carried that torch into our own time, providing young people of all backgrounds with an example they can emulate in their own lives.”

"Faced with unrelenting political opposition, President Obama has embodied the definition of courage that my grandfather cites in the opening lines of Profiles in Courage: grace under pressure,” said Schlossberg. “Throughout his two terms in office, he represented all Americans with decency, integrity, and an unshakeable commitment to the greater good.”
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President Obama's Remarks on Award

“It’s been more than half a century since John F. Kennedy asked us to cast aside our narrow self-interest and take up the chase of a greater ambition: our collective capacity to do big things, especially when it’s hard,” said President Obama. “It was a call to citizenship as true as the words of our founding and a conviction that helped guide me to public service as a younger man – a belief in the possibilities of our democracy and the power of what we, the people, can do together.
“Even today, amidst the noisy and too often trivial pursuits of the politics of our time, it’s a summons to service that rings as loudly as ever. Part of that is thanks to an extraordinary family that continues to light the fire of imagination and plant the seed of noble ambition in the minds of each new generation of Americans. Like so many Americans, I am grateful for the Kennedy family’s legacy of service. And I am deeply humbled to receive the Profile in Courage Award.”
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That I both vigorously and sincerely disagree, almost to the point of taking personal offense at the news, is the best possible testament to both the spirit of the award, and in the correctness of their decision in awarding it to former President Obama.

Congratulations to him.

Link: https://www.jfklibrary.org/Home/About Us/News and Press/Press Releases/2017 Profile in Courage Award

JayVols · Mar 3, 2017

Congrats President Obama, ret.

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