Award recognizing President Trump for his Foreign Policy of Peace was presented by members of the Nixon Family at an Oval Office Ceremony on October 21, 2025
The Richard Nixon Foundation selected President Donald J. Trump as the Distinguished Recipient of the 2025/2026 Architect of Peace Award.
Members of the Nixon Family and Nixon Foundation Board Chairman Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien presented the Award to President Trump at a ceremony in the Oval Office at The White House on October 21, 2025.
“President Trump’s America First foreign policy is rooted in robust personal diplomacy combined with a peace-through-strength philosophy. The results have been simply incredible in the number of ceasefires and peace deals that he has achieved around the world. As a recipient of the Architect of Peace Award, he will join a pantheon of peacemakers who put into practice the principles that defined President Nixon’s own vision for a more peaceful world,” said Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, Chairman of the Nixon Foundation Board of Directors.
President Trump’s foreign policy accomplishments include brokering the historic Abraham Accords, establishing economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, healing the Gulf Rift, negotiating ceasefires in Thailand and Cambodia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, and Armenia and Azerbaijan, and his current efforts to bring a lasting peace to Russia and Ukraine.
Most recently, President Trump’s diplomacy resulted in the momentous Gaza Peace Deal that included the release of all remaining living Israeli hostages, and the establishment a framework for sustainable peace in the Middle East.
The Architect of Peace Award was established in 1995, shortly after President Nixon’s death, to honor individuals who embody his lifelong goal of shaping a more peaceful world. Its recipients include, among others, former Presidents Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, former National Security Advisors Dr. Henry Kissinger and Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, as well as royalty, Empress Farah Pahlavi and Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
About The Richard Nixon Foundation
The Richard Nixon Foundation is a privately supported, nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that advances President Nixon’s legacy of visionary leadership, international grand strategy, public service, and a more just society for all Americans. The Foundation is based at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, and works throughout the country and online by actively encouraging and supporting scholarship, sponsoring programs that engage the public with American civics, creating and promoting educational exhibits rooted in American history, and fostering discussion and debate about America’s 37th president. For additional information, visit www.nixonfoundation.org.
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