{"id":2340,"date":"2011-10-05T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:32:49","slug":"lech-walesa-gets-lincoln-leadership-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/lech-walesa-gets-lincoln-leadership-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa gets Lincoln Leadership Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation in Springfield, Illinois, awarded its Leadership Prize to Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa. Legendary Solidarity leader and former President of Poland will accept the award on February 9 in Chicago.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The award is given to people whose lives and actions exemplify Lincoln&#8217;s legacy of leadership\u201d &#8211; president of the Foundation, Carla Knorowski stressed out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2011\/10\/Unknown-4.jpeg\" aria-label=\"Unknown 4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2341\"  alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"141\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2011\/10\/Unknown-4.jpeg\"><\/a>Wa\u0142\u0119sa\u00a0is a former shipyard worker and Nobel Peace Prize winner who in 1990 became the first democratically elected president in Polish postwar history. He served until 1995.<\/p>\n<p>He first became known for his struggles to win worker&#8217;s rights in Poland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa\u00a0said in a statement that he is proud to be awarded the Leadership Prize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The Prize of The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation is also a tribute to the entire Polish nation, which for nearly two decades, peacefully and democratically conducted economic and social revolution. As a result of this transformation, Poland entered a period of prosperity and justice&#8221; &#8211; says Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The &#8220;Lincoln Leadership Prize&#8221; is awarded since 2006. Past winners include: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2008), American astronaut James Lovell Jr.(2010) and the NBC journalist Tim Russert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation in Springfield, Illinois, awarded its Leadership Prize to Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa. Legendary Solidarity leader and former President of Poland will accept the award on February 9 in Chicago. &#8220;The award is given to people whose lives and actions exemplify Lincoln&#8217;s legacy of leadership\u201d &#8211; president of the Foundation, Carla Knorowski&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/lech-walesa-gets-lincoln-leadership-prize\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,10166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}