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Can Obama accept the Nobel Prize without congressional consent?

As a somewhat tangential question: I recall that Pres. Bush was presented with a mounted pistol that had belonged to Saddam Hussein — presented by some of the US generals after the fall of Baghdad. This struck me at the time as rather unseemly. Full Article at The Volokh Conspiracy

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