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Old 10-09-2009, 06:37 AM  
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe...ize/index.html


Interesting


"Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1 -- only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September -- two months before Obama was elected president."

and

"The last sitting U.S. president to win the peace prize was Woodrow Wilson in 1919. The other was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Jimmy Carter had been out of office for more than two decades when he won in 2002."
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