--- description: "The president, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land" title: Ebola: White House Congratulates Responders on TIME Person of the Year image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6ac677c0182ae1b/69876e13428a9e2d55cc5f71/josh-earnest-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Person of the Year topic](/tag/person-of-the-year-2/) ## Person of the Year topic Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # White House Salutes Ebola Fighters by [Zeke Miller](/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 10, 2014 5:31 PM CUT  White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest holds the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 19, 2014. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest holds the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 19, 2014.Ron Sachs—dpa/Corbis by [Zeke Miller](/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 10, 2014 5:31 PM CUT White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest congratulated Ebola responders Wednesday for being named [TIME’s Person of the Year](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-fighters-choice/ "undefined"). “Health care workers on the front lines of the Ebola fight certainly aren’t in it for the recognition, but today their heroism and selflessness was on display because of TIME magazine’s decision to name them its person of the year,” Earnest said at the top of his daily press briefing. “The Administration, including the President, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/"},"headline":"White House Salutes Ebola Fighters","datePublished":"2014-12-10T17:31:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:44:20.877Z","description":"\"The president, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land\"","url":"https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/","keywords":["Person of the Year topic","White House","ebola","Josh Earnest"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6ac677c0182ae1b/69876e13428a9e2d55cc5f71/josh-earnest-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6ac677c0182ae1b/69876e13428a9e2d55cc5f71/josh-earnest-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Earnest Daily Briefing","caption":"Earnest Daily Briefing","creditText":"Ron Sachs—dpa/Corbis","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/person-of-the-year-2/","name":"Person of the Year topic"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/","name":"White House Salutes Ebola Fighters"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola Fighters in the U.S. - TIME's Person of the Year 2014","description":"Dr. Kent Brantly and other health care workers talk about surviving Ebola","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/SBg4j1BY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-10T11:44:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SBg4j1BY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/","duration":"PT6M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```