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And that wasn't the most (or only) controversial award -- Theodore Roosevelt (1906, for drawing up the Russo-Japanese peace treaty)Just a sidenote: I was actually gonna include Theodore Rex but my personal preferences got the better of me. He may have been an imperalist asshole but his conservation work was the first real stab at the government doing anything to protect the environment.
Looking over the list, a lot of them seem to be almost pop culture awards, and it's unclear that decades later the person was really worthy.Perhaps you are right. They probably should be doled out a good deal after the fact. I was mostly trying to scold Creston for his harshness