At 1:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia at the White House.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was also one of Mr. Taylor's early backers.
Among the notable examples are Nelson Mandela in 1990 and 1994 and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2006.
Previous recipients of the award include Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The odds against Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ever leading her country were huge.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected the first woman President of Africa in 2006, taking over a war-torn country and an economy in ruin.
FORBES: Liberia's Johnson Sirleaf Co-Winner of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who will stand for re-election in October 2011, shares her dream that Liberia would become a beacon for gender equality and women leadership, across the world.
FORBES: Liberia's Johnson Sirleaf Co-Winner of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
But, like Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first female elected as head of state, women are determined to make a gender difference in the way they do business.
Since she came to power in 2006, the president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has brought stability and rapid economic growth, but her country faces a dilemma on the involvement of foreign multinationals in the country.
Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mr Jan Eliasson, and the Director of Columbia University and The Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia has won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced today from Oslo, along with peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner.
FORBES: Liberia's Johnson Sirleaf Co-Winner of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
Around 250 guests -- including Senator Patrick Leahy, President Jahjaga of Kosovo, Prime Minister Simpson-Miller of Jamaica, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, academic leaders, CEOs of major companies, and representatives from civil society organizations -- attended the standing-room only event.
Hillary Clinton(5) can be linked to dozens of women on our list, but most recently Melinda Gates(27), Katie Couric(22), Queen Rania Al Abdullah(76), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf(86), Andrea Jung(57), Gisele Bundchen(72) and the scores of other women who were present at the Clinton Global Initiative in NYC last month.
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The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, said she was saddened by the news.
At the helm is President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, whose task of uniting a once-fractured and divided society is too enormous to be judged prematurely.
In the past 12 months Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia, Michelle Bachelet president of Chile and Han Myung-sook South Korea's first female prime minister.
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