Elizabeth Cheney is the former Republican member of Congress from the state of Wyoming

who distinguished herself during her service with courage, honesty, and an absolute dedication to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

Because she stood against the tide, because she said no in a sea of cowardice,

Congresswoman Cheney was awarded at the Kennedy Library, the Profiles Encourage Award.

She was awarded the Profiles and Courage Award because in a time of abdication, in a time of faithlessness, in a time of cynicism and cowardice.

Liz Cheney said, I stand with America, not with Donald Trump,

and not with a gang that is trying for their own sake,

for their own power, for their own benefit,

attempting to take as much as they can get.

What Liz Cheney understood, maybe in part because she is the daughter of a man who conceded

in an election to President Jimmy Carter from President Ford, who had lost his voice in the final days

of the campaign, because maybe she had been

with her father when he received word that Senator Kerry had conceded an election, or that

Vice President Gore had conceded one of the closest elections in American history.

She understood that the greatest elections in American history, she understood that the greatest invention in American history

was the peaceful transition of power.

She understood that the cornerstone,

the keystone of American society and life, is that peaceful transition of power?

Liz Cheney didn't just pass by the painting in the Capitol that showed George Washington

surrendering his commission back to the Congress, the man who could be king, an emperor, a Napoleon, instead bowing,

subordinating himself to an idea that in America, it is the country, it is the republic,

it is our liberty that is supreme.

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