
Mike Pence to receive JFK Profile in Courage Award
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Former Vice President Mike Pence is this year’s recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “putting his life and career on the line” in overseeing the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Thursday.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is this year’s recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “putting his life and career on the line” in overseeing the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Thursday. “Despite our political differences, it is hard to imagine an act of greater consequence than Vice President Pence’s decision to certify the 2020 presidential election during an attack on the U.S. Capitol,” the Foundation’s Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg said in a statement. “Upholding his oath to the Constitution and following his conscience, the Vice President put his life, career, and political future on the line,” the pair continued. The award, created in 1989, is presented to “public servants who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences.” The former Republican vice president said he’s “deeply humbled and honored to be the recipient” of the award, which he’ll be presented with in May. “I have been inspired by the life and words of President John F. Kennedy since my youth and am honored to join the company of so many distinguished Americans who have received this recognition in the past,” Pence said in a statement.

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