Obama's Peace Nobel Comes Early In Presidency

by Juan Williams, NPR

President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the prize committee said. It's not unheard of for a sitting American president to win the prize: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson won while in office — but not in their first year.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, October 9, 2009