- Award given to former President Barack Obama on Saturday by Television Academy.
- Obama and wife, former first lady Michelle Obama’s production company is named “Higher Ground.”
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Obama, who shortly after taking office in 2009 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, now one of two U.S. presidents to have won an Emmy.
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Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly received a special award from the television academy in 1956.