The decision to leave a seat empty during the president’s speech is not unprecedented: There was one in first lady Laura Bush’s box in 2003 that symbolized “the empty place many Americans will always have at their tables and in their lives because of the attacks on September 11, 2001”, according to the White House at the time.
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Below are President Obama’s other State of the Union addresses.
In one example, Favreau explains a joke about a regulation involving “spilled milk” that fell flat in Obama’s 2012 address. We’re doing big things in CT. “CT has an unbelievable story to tell over the past few years – and we’re proud to tell it”.
“The Leader declared this 1 chair within the First Woman is State-Of the Marriage Visitor Container is likely to be left vacant for gun violence’s patients who no further possess a speech simply because they require the remainder people to talk for them”.
Edith Childs, of Greenwood, South Carolina, was serving on the Greenwood County Council when she and then-Illinois Sen. Obama met in June 2007. “Not because I’m Edith Childs and black, but because I’m a person”. Smith had kept the patch for 40 years; Obama carried it with him for the rest of the campaign.
“This is going to be an incredibly emotional moment”, said Van Jones, a leading environmental official in Obama’s first administration and now a CNN political contributor. “My last one“, he said. Media organizations such as MSNBC have used it to annotate State of the Union speeches in the past. And there’s no deceleration in this guy.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also signaled an ambitious agenda for 2016, joked that Obama should spend his final State of the Union apologizing for his past policies.
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“Since I took office seven years ago in the midst of crisis, I don’t think I’ve ever been more optimistic about a year ahead than I am now”, he said.
