President Obama Thursday to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The president will spend 26 hours in Oslo meeting the royal family, accepting the Nobel at an afternoon ceremony and attending an award banquet that evening.
At the ceremony, Obama will accept a $1.4 million prize check, a gold medal and a diploma.
Obama's day will begin with a trip to the Nobel Institute, where he will meet for the first time the five-member panel that unanimously picked him for the prize, said Mette Owre of the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama will then meet with Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja before heading to the award ceremony."Then he goes to the hotel where he is staying. He will have some downtime. He is governing America at the time," Owre said.
Obama's Nobel Prize win, announced in October, elicited swift reaction -- some hailing the choice; others asking what he had accomplished to deserve it.
Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1, only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president.
President Obama Thursday to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
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