"Campbell, Elizabeth" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:3da711e5$9@skycache-news.fidnet.com... > Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 > http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1919/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:32 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Carter awarded Nobel Peace Prize > > In case you haven't heard yet, this morning former President Jimmy Carter was > awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was actually a long overdue honor and very > well deserved. Except for a technical problem to do with nominating > procedure, Carter would have been awarded the prize in 1981, along with Anwar > Sadat and Menachem Begin. Nonetheless, it is certainly well deserved. > > The only other US President to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Theodore > Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his > work in the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the > Russo-Japanese War in 1905. You may be surprised, but this also made him also > the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any category. You forgot Woodrow Wilson. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *