This work presents the full text of the State of the Union Addresses delivered by Barack Obama. The aim was to make these speeches as accessible as possible to the general public. Dates of Addresses by Barack Obama in this work: February 24, 2009 January 27, 2010 January 25, 2011 January 24, 2012 February 12, 2013 January 28, 2014 January 20, 2015 January 12, 2016

Here, in one concise document, is an essential history of the speeches and record of the administration of President Barack Obama, who served two terms in office from 2009 to 2017. Over seventy major speeches have been carefully selected from the 4700 speeches archived by the White House. Every State of the Union and Inaugural address is included, along with campaign speeches, foreign addresses, remarks about key events during Obama's time in office, and his farewell address. The final summary reports of the record of his administration as compiled by the White House in January 2017 provide insight into his policies on the economy, health care, the environment and climate change, social progress, and leadership in the world. Contents: 1. Eight Years of Recovery and Reinvestment * 2. Historic Commitment to Protecting the Environment and Reversing Climate Change * 3. President Obama on the Economy * 4. President Obama on Health * 5. President Obama on Social Progress * 6. American Leadership in the World * 7. The 2017 Economic Report of the President * State of the Union Address, 2016 * State of the Union Address, 2015 * State of the Union Address, 2014 * State of the Union Address, 2013 * State of the Union Address, 2012 * State of the Union Address, 2011 * State of the Union Address, 2010 * Inaugural Address, 2013 * Inaugural Address, 2009 His economic report notes: In early 2009, President Obama was faced with the daunting task of helping to rescue an economy in the midst of its worst crisis since the Great Depression-an effort that relied on a wide range of policies developed by a team across the Federal Government, including CEA. The forceful response to the crisis in 2008 and 2009 helped stave off a potential second Depression, setting the U.S. economy on track to rebuild, reinvest, and recover. Recovery from the crisis alone, though, was never our sole aim. The Administration has also addressed the structural barriers to shared, sustainable prosperity that middle-class families had faced for decades-rising health care costs, limited access to higher education, slow growth in incomes, high levels of inequality, a reliance on oil and other sources of carbon pollution, and more-so that the U.S. economy would work for all Americans. Thanks to these policy efforts, eight years later, the American economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the 21st century than ever before.

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The speech, that was within hours, already being hailed as one of the most 'commanding' preformances by any US President, let alone a new US President. Includes the full text of the Speech PLUS Governor Jindal's Republican response.

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000. In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the Senate in November. He began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months after his election, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The 1974 State of the Union Address was given by Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, to the 93rd US Congress. Excerpt: "We meet here tonight at a time of great challenge and great opportunities for America. We meet at a time when we face great problems at home and abroad that will test the strength of our fiber as a nation. But we also meet at a time when that fiber has been tested, and it has proved strong..."