
Obama to receive JFK foundation’s ‘Profile in Courage’ award in May – Former President Barack Obama has been named the 2017 “Profile in Courage” award honoree by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation which will take place in May 2017. The foundation is recognizing Obama for “expanding health security for millions of Americans, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba and leading a landmark international accord to combat climate change.”
The award, created in 1989, is given to a public official or group of public servants from any level of government each year “whose actions demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of ‘Profiles in Courage,’ President Kennedy’s 1957 Pulitzer prize-winning book”. Obama isn’t the only president who has been so honored: former Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush have also received the award.
In a statement, Jack Schlossberg, the son of JFK’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy said, “Our country owes a debt of gratitude to President Obama, not just for the many important policy achievements made during his tenure but also for the example of leadership he provided all of us, which we may draw upon in the years to come”.
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