I had to do my best to hold it all together on camera as they read out my nomination letter.
Their nomination letter to President Obama said Paterno personified sportsmanship on the field and academic achievement in the classroom and noted Paterno's philanthropic efforts.
membership of man whose proposer had said in nomination letter, merely that he had served in the great war and looked well on a horse.
"Soccer has and will continue to play an important role in the global arena, when it comes to creating understanding between people," Gustafsson wrote in his nomination letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.
"Dr. Litvack knows from personal experience what it takes to develop new medical technologies and move them through the regulatory process to adoption in the marketplace," Chiang wrote in his nomination letter.
"Mr. Brownlow is a giant among film historians and preservationists, known and justifiably respected throughout the world for his multiple achievements," wrote Martin Scorsese in his nomination letter.
"She has a belief, 'That you just grab life by the horns and ride until you get tired; you have the choice of hanging on or falling off,'" Wheeler wrote in her nomination letter.
"Although North Korea has evaded demands from the international community to cease its aggression for decades, President Trump's peace through strength policies are working and bringing peace to the Korean peninsula," write the lawmakers in their nomination letter.
"Her courage and persistence in communicating climate science to the wider public have made her a living legend among her colleagues," wrote two enthusiastic backers of her, Benjamin Santer and John Abraham, in a prize-nomination letter that led to her winning the 2011 Climate Change Communicators of the Year award.
Another act was passed in 1547 providing for nomination by letters patent in all cases, but this was repealed under Mary Tudor.
