Kennedy family honors Mike Pence for courage on Jan. 6
Former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen stand with Caroline Kennedy and her son Jack Schlossberg. Associated Press / Photo by Robert F. Bukaty
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday reflected on the importance of the U.S. Constitution while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday. The Constitution brings the country together and provides common ground for American people across generations, he said. Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg presented the award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The award committee selected Pence for the honor in recognition of his actions on January 6, 2021, when he oversaw the congressional certification of former President Joe Biden’s election despite pressure from President Donald Trump to throw out the results.
At Sunday’s ceremony, the former vice president said he did his duty to facilitate the peaceful transfer of power. He said he was able to do so only by God’s grace, and he gave the glory and honor to Jesus Christ. He also thanked both Republican and Democratic politicians for coming together on January 6.
What has his relationship with Trump been since then? Pence has become an occasional critic of Trump’s. He wrote a memoir that described their falling out and later declined to support Trump’s 2024 campaign. An advocacy group he founded launched a campaign against the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
What is the history of the award? Members of former President John F. Kennedy’s family created the award in 1989 to honor him and recognize other people who they thought displayed political courage. The honor recognizes a public official whose actions align with those discussed in Kennedy’s 1957 book titled Profiles in Courage. JFK’s book focused on eight U.S. senators who made unpopular decisions for the greater good and risked their careers in the process.
Each year, the library foundation names a bipartisan committee to select the recipient or recipients of the award. Former President Barack Obama, former Utah Senator and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and former President George H.W. Bush have also received the honor.
Dig deeper: Read Carolina Lumetta's report about a judge unsealing evidence in the Jan. 6 case against Trump.
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Kennedy Award had a tough choice btwn Pence and their own RFK Jr…. who displayed political courage and made unpopular decisions for the greater good & risked his career in the process. Calling out DEM corruption and changing parties to join “Hitler on a quest to destroy democracy” is very dangerous. Guess they can’t keep it all in the family, tho.
RFK Jr has consistently lied and deceived this year, and when confronted with studies and facts, shifts topics and doesn't answer. I can't read into motive. However, political courage does not mean that he is doing the right thing, and the medical community is already seriously concerned if he actually knows what he is doing (Measles is only the tip of the iceberg). Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt, that he is not a well-intentioned Kamikaze pilot trying to cause harm to his enemies, people who see a butterfly in the cocoon and let it out of its cocoon can mean well, but in the end lead to the butterfly's demise.
This does not mean that RFK Jr is a bad person, we are all sinners that have fallen many times and still will even after receiving Christ, and as God has commanded, do not insult leaders. However, God also calls us to keep others accountable, and call out immoral actions, just like John the Baptist called out Herod.
Biden proclaimed: "You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die."
Joe "I'm not joking” told lies n’ deceit, right?
Asking for a perfectly fit and fully vaccinated friend who got COVID 3 more times post-shot and got hospitalized in ICU after his stroke that just happened to strike just two weeks after his doses, then spent the holidays w/ the medical community to stop the brain-swell @ Emory, right down the street from the lying and deceitful CDC. Excited just thinking about the ways you'll weave a new narrative to make this all get turned into "the truth."
Fauci promoted this bit about Covid (21 JAN 2020): "This is not a major threat for the people of the United States. And this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about."
Tony "I am the science" Fauci was a liar or a deceiver, or both, right?
Asking for 350 million Americans got their faces masked up, lives locked down, society enslaved and veins mando-vax'd just a few weeks later, as C-19 (surprisingly?) became a major threat to the people of the United States, apparently. Can't wait to see how you spin this to fit into your reality.
"society enslaved"
My goodness we are a soft, spoiled people.
Anthony "the science" Fauci told everyone (March 2020): "Right now in the United States people should NOT be walking around with masks. There's NO reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little better -- it might even block a droplet -- but it is NOT providing the perfect protection that people thing that it is."
Tony "the science" Fauci was full of lies and deception, right?
Or, did the lies come a few days later when he completely flipped the script and masked you up?
Asking for 350 friends and 350 million Americans who were made to mask up under pain of pandemic panic, personal job loss, expulsion from family gatherings, inability to breath freely, see loving smiles, and live normal lives. Look forward to your expert rationalization.
US Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams assured us (MAR 2020) with this advice: "Masks are NOT effective in preventing the general public from catching Coronavirus... The Coronavirus is new, but we've dealt with SARS, we've dealt with MERS, we've dealt with N1H1 and we literally all have a playbook that we are following to respond to the novel Coronavirus.
"America's top doctor" was deceiving us and/or lying, right?
Or, was he telling the truth... before he switched up his story 180 degrees and started lying?
Asking for all the "experts" in the "medical community" who graduated from "top institutions" who pushed made-up mantras and pseudo-scientific spin jobs off as dogma. Give it your best make-over.
Pence and I didn't agree on much, but it absolutely took a great amount of courage to do the right thing on that terrible day. God bless him for his moral choice and patriotism.
I think pence made good decisions that day and I’m happy to see people recognize it.
Thanks @ WORLD for the comic relief
Following the Constitution and the rule of law is a joke to you?
The conservative, theological, well-thought out life and thoughts of Mike Pence have more integrity than most of the Republican Party at this point. I still think he acquiesced to Trump too much, in trying to keep Trump in check, but January 6 is a black cloud in our history, that hopefully we don't repeat ever again.