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What is the name of the US president who won a Nobel Prize and who had a son who won the Congressional Medal of Honor?
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#48308. Asked by yeaux.
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yeaux
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Jimmy Carter's son Amy has not yet won her Congressional Medal Of Honor.
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robboy
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Teddy Roosevelt and his son Theodore Jr. Jr. won it during the D-Day invasion.
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Brainyblonde
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In 1906 Teddy Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
http://www.biography.com/broadband/1904/04fr02.html
Theodore Roosevelt did not get the Medal of Honor, but his name is on the rolls since his son, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was awarded the medal posthumously for courage and leadership in the 1944 D-Day Landings in France during World War II.
http://www.medalofhonor.com/PurgedMedals.htm
The quest to secure the Medal of Honor for Theodore Roosevelt ended after 103 years when President William J. Clinton presented the nation's highest military award to Theodore Roosevelt posthumously.
http://www.medalofhonor.com/TheodoreRoosevelt.htm
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