Nobel Peace Prize speeches are regularly filled with soaring rhetoric and grand humanitarian gestures. President Barack Obama will accept his prize Thursday with a speech that aims at historical resonance but is forced by his status as a new, wartime president.
Administration officials say the speech, which the president is sketching himself, will address the irony of receiving a peace prize a week after ratcheting up the war in Afghanistan, and the require for continued leadership on nuclear disarmament.
The prize is awarded not often to a sitting head of state; not in 90 years has it gone to a sitting U.S. president. Mr. Obama's nomination was based on his outreach to other nations and the Muslim world, his maintain for nuclear disarmament and election as the first African-American president.
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