President Biden is scheduled to deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday night as he concludes his four-year term in the White House.
Biden released a farewell letter to the country early Wednesday and is scheduled to speak from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. ET.
“Four years ago, we stood in a winter of danger and a winter of possibility. We were facing the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War. We were facing a war,” Biden wrote.
“But as Americans, we came together and braved it. We came out stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.”
President Biden releases farewell letter, says it has been 'the privilege of my life to serve this country'
On August 15, 2023, President Biden arrives aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Mr. Biden will officially leave the Oval Office on January 20, and President-elect Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States around noon on the same day.
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Biden has been in public office for more than 50 years and put his name on the national map in 1972, when President Richard Nixon won re-election in a landslide, defeating the Republican incumbent in a close Senate race in Delaware at the age of 29. .
President Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24, 2024, about his decision to withdraw his bid for re-election. (Evan Vucci, Pool via AP)
“I ran for president because I believed the soul of America was at stake. The very essence of who we are was at stake. And that's still the case. ” he added in his farewell letter.
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“The idea that America is stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean. It is the most powerful idea in the history of the world. Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness We have never fully lived this sacred ideal, but we have never strayed from it, and I do not believe that the American people will ever stray from it.”
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Reuters/Jim Berg)
Biden served for 36 years. United States Senate, His career as a senator was one of the longest in Congressional history, and he joined former President Barack Obama's campaign in 2008 and served as vice president for eight years.
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The 46th president defeated Trump in the 2020 election and was scheduled to face him again last year, but suddenly withdrew from the presidential race amid concerns about his mental fitness. Vice President Kamala Harris quickly won support from Biden and other prominent Democrats to serve as the party's presidential nominee, but Trump won all seven battleground states. Because of this, he lost the election.
President Biden and former President Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Biden, who has been an outspoken and repeated critic of Trump, calling him a “real threat to this country,” vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power and attend Trump's inauguration “of course.”
Ahead of his final address to the United States, Biden also delivered a farewell speech focused on foreign policy at the State Department on Monday.
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“The United States is more globally competitive than we were four years ago,” Biden said in his final foreign policy speech on Monday.
He added: “America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger, but our adversaries and competitors are weaker.”
