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The president's farewell speech is more than a goodbye to the nation that elected him twice. It is his last chance in office to define his tumultuous presidency in his own, unfiltered terms.
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The president's farewell speech is more than a goodbye to the nation that elected him twice. It is his last chance in office to define his tumultuous presidency in his own, unfiltered terms.
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The president's farewell speech is more than a goodbye to the nation that elected him twice. It is his last chance in office to define his tumultuous presidency in his own, unfiltered terms.
Washington D.C. doesn’t get to host Mardi Gras or the Super Bowl, so the presidential inauguration is our city's spectacle. It combines revelry with what Ronald Reagan called "a solemn and most momentous occasion; and yet, in the history of our Nation… a commonplace occurrence.”
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