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Posted on 04/21/2022 11:02:16 AM PDT by cotton1706
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation will, for the first time ever, honor a total of 5 individuals with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award this year, including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, The Washington Post reports.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), Arizona House Speaker Russell "Rusty" Bowers (R), and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, who works for the Fulton Country election department in Georgia, will also receive the award.
"These honorees have placed their careers and lives on the line to protect democratic principles and free and fair elections," the foundation said in its announcement, per the Post. "They embody what President Kennedy admired most in others — political courage."
The group applauded Zelensky's "principled leadership," which has "strengthened the resolve of Ukrainians and people around the globe to protect and defend the fragile human right of self-determination." Ukraine is currently fending off an unprompted invasion at the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The foundation also praised Cheney, vocal critic of former President Donald Trump and member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, for refusing "to take the politically expedient course that most of her party embraced."
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
I agree the book was a good one, but lying about the true author is not exactly a “Profile in Courage”!
Fake libtard awards for propping up dancing puppets 🤪
“I agree the book was a good one, but lying about the true author is not exactly a “Profile in Courage”!”
Supposedly Richard Nixon wrote only the last chapter of his Six Crises (another great book!). Though he wrote all the rest of his books himself.
And Bill Buckley’s brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell wrote Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative.
Birds of a feather.
By this reasoning, Benedict Arnold should have won the award.
You’re right. These prizes are agenda driven.
I bet zelensky will accept the award in person.
He hates being in the Ukraine.
This actually tells you a lot.
Profile in Courage used to mean something.
Where are the barf bags? Liz Cheney, good grief.
She hates Trump, therefore she is “Courageous” gee I remember when the left absolutely despised the Cheney family hated their guts inside and out
Yes.
All anti-free speech. Great.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-awards/profile-in-courage-award/committee
COMMITTEE
Martha Minow, Chair
300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University, and former Dean, Harvard Law School
Stacey Abrams
Former Georgia House Democratic Leader
Due to the commencement of her campaign for Governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams is taking a leave of absence from the selection committee effective immediately (12/9/2021).
David Axelrod
Political Strategist and founder of the Institute of Politics at The University of Chicago
Joaquin Castro
US Congressman (D-TX 20th District)
Carlos Curbelo
Former US Congressman (R-FL 26th District)
Christopher J. Dodd
Former Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America; Former US Senator (D-CT)
Adam Frankel
Senior Advisor to Emerson Collective and Fenway Strategies; Former Speechwriter to President Barack Obama
Sherrilyn Ifill
President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Caroline Kennedy
Honorary President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Marne Levine
Vice President of Global Partnerships and Business Development, Facebook
Claire McCaskill
Former US Senator (D-MO); NBC Political Analyst
William H. McRaven
Admiral, USN (Retired)
Beth Myers
Principal, Buckminster Strategies
Ronald L. Sargent
Chairman, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Jack Schlossberg
Grandson of President Kennedy
“Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), Arizona House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers (R), and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who works for the Fulton Country election department in Georgia, will also receive the award.”
It’s actually quite appropriate that they are handing out awards for election fraud in JFK’s name.
Come on man, it takes a lot of courage to play the piano with your schlong on TV.
Two attention whores getting an award named after a serial philanderer.
I wonder if Kennedy actually wrote his first book, ‘Why England Slept’? Also a good read... it was his thesis at Harvard...
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