--- title: Ebola: White House Congratulates Responders on TIME Person of the Year description: "The president, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land" canonical: https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-10T17:31:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:13.803Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ebola: White House Congratulates Responders on TIME Person of the Year og:description: "The president, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land" og:url: https://time.com/3628155/ebola-time-person-of-the-year-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og: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 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Earnest Daily Briefing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola: White House Congratulates Responders on TIME Person of the Year twitter:description: "The president, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land" twitter: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 ---  # White House Salutes Ebola Fighters ## Video: Ebola Fighters in the U.S. - TIME's Person of the Year 2014 [Watch (HLS stream): Ebola Fighters in the U.S. - TIME's Person of the Year 2014](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SBg4j1BY.m3u8) (6:15)  _Published 2014-12-10. Dr. Kent Brantly and other health care workers talk about surviving Ebola_ by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 10, 2014 5:31 PM UTC  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](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 10, 2014 5:31 PM UTC 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/). “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":"2026-08-04T08:00:13.803Z","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"}}] ```