here i am with all my closest friends, all right? the toy department. now sports, it s not often that the appearance of lebron james can top the appearance of someone else, but there he is, robert griffin iii, rg3, standing ovation when he shows up at the heat s game playing in washington. fourth quarter, jordan crawford s jumper falls. wizards, four-point lead with under three minutes to play. now less than two remaining. lebron james drives to the hoop. let s see him drive to the hoop. i missed it. okay. anyway, i don t even care what happened in the basketball game. wizards up by three. lebron, look, here he is. this is after the game. look at this. this kid is going to be, if he s not already, the face of the national football league. he is phenomenal. there s a series of rookie
economic crisis since the great depression. the worst in most of our lifetimes. a recession that cost us more than 4 million jobs in the six months before i took office. 750,000 jobs lost the month i was sworn in. 600,000 after that. 600,000 the month after that. most of them lost before any of our economic plans had an opportunity to take effect. it was a once in a generation challenge. i ll be honest. joe will recall this. our hope was because this was such a unique challenge that it would cause both parties to put politics aside for the sake of the country. that was the expectation. we hoped to move beyond the bickering and game playing in