did ronald reagan win a nobel peace prize

The news today is that the professors who hand out the Nobel Peace Prize have decided to award one to Al Gore for “disseminating greater knowledge” about climate change. Congratulations to the former vice president. Time will tell if his “moral crusade” against global warming is real or not, but the professors think making a movie was a sufficient reason to recognize “one of the world’s leading environmentalist politicians.”

Several years ago, the professors also gave a Nobel Prize to Jimmy Carter because, according to the committee’s chairman at the time, he “has a more moderate point of view than the sitting [Bush] administration.” Years earlier in 1973, the professors had awarded a joint prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam for ending the Vietnam War. Apparently, the professors are impressed with pronouncements of internationalism and a moral equivalence between combatants, even if one represents freedom and one totalitarianism.

But how can the professors explain giving the prize to Mikhail Gorbachev back in 1990, but not the man who forced him into retirement — Ronald Reagan? How can the loser of the Cold War that represented repression and totalitarianism be a more worthy recipient but not the ideological victor? After all, it was Reagan’s policies that ended the Cold War and took the world away from the brink of a potential nuclear confrontation that had threatened mankind for 50 years. If Gorbachev acquiesced to this new reality, it was not because it was his idea. Rather, he had no other option.

When Will Ronald Reagan Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Reagan’s policies moved beyond containment to aggressively engage the Soviets on military, economic and ideological grounds. He did this in the face of total opposition from liberals (including Al Gore) and amid predictions from the media and academic establishment that his policies were unrealistic and doomed to failure.

Maybe the professors objected to Reagan’s warlike statements (“Evil Empire”) and saber-rattling. However, the Cold War was ended through negotiation when Reagan deftly backed the Soviets into a corner. His 1987 INF treaty with the Soviets was the first of the Cold War era to actually reduce the number of nuclear weapons both sides possessed.

He made that deal even as he refused to include strategic defense in the negotiations, as Gorbachev had demanded. The Soviet Empire could not keep up with the dynamic American economy and eventually went the way of the Edsel. As one former KGB official noted some years later, “American policy in the 1980s was a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union.” Too bad the professors weren’t listening.

What Is The World’S Greatest Peace Prize?

According to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the prize for peace should be awarded annually to an individual who had performed the greatest or best work for fraternity between nations, that was abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the maintenance or promotion of peaceful congresses.

Did Barack Obama Win A Nobel Peace Prize?

It was awarded to President Barack Obama in 2009 for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and mutual understanding”. As part of the prize-giving ceremonies in Oslo, President Obama accepted the prize on December 10th 2009.

What 4 Presidents Won The Nobel Peace Prize?

This makes Obama the fourth sitting American President to be honored by the Norwegian Prize of Peace (after Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter).

Theodore Roosevelt (1906)

Roosevelt, the 26th occupant of the White House (1901-09), was not only the first American president but also the world’s first statesman to win the honour, five years after the Peace Prize was instituted in 1901.

A historian, biographer, statesman, hunter and naturalist, Roosevelt was given the prize for negotiating peace between imperial Russia and Japan after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.

At home, Roosevelt launched radical social and economic reform policies, and earned a reputation as a “trust buster” for breaking up monopolies.

Critics, however, blame Roosevelt for nurturing America’s imperial ambitions, such as completing his country’s domination of the Philippines. He is also known for opposing the efforts of Woodrow

Wilson, the 28th President and second top statesman from the country to win the Nobel Peace Prize, towards making the US a member of the League of Nations.

 Woodrow Wilson

Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. “No one but the President,” he said, “seems to be expected … to look out for the general interests of the country.” He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted

international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”

Wilson had seen the frightfulness of war. He was born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia,

and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina.

After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia

Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson.

Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.

His growing national reputation led some conservative Democrats to consider him Presidential timber. First they persuaded him to run for Governor of New Jersey in 1910. In the campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him,

endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor.

In the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote.

 Woodrow Wilson

Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.

Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day. By virtue of this legislation and the slogan “he kept us out of war,” Wilson narrowly won re-election.

 But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

Massive American effort slowly tipped the balance in favor of the Allies. Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims–the Fourteen Points,

the last of which would establish “A general association of nations…affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”

After the german

After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace. He later presented to the Senate the Versailles Treaty,

containing the Covenant of the League of Nations, and asked, “Dare we reject it and break the heart of the world?”

But the election of 1918 had shifted the balance in Congress to the Republicans. By seven votes the Versailles Treaty failed in the Senate.

The President, against the warnings of his doctors, had made a national tour to mobilize public sentiment for the treaty. Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly died. Tenderly nursed by his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, he lived until 1924.

Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize