Speaker members of the congress, i have a high privilege and distinct honor to present to you our former colleague, the president of the United States. [applause] president bush thank you very much. Mr. President , mr. Speaker, members of the United States congress i return as a former president of the senate and a former member of this great house. And now, as president , it is my privilege to report to you on the state of the union. Tonight,i come not to speak about the state of the government, not to detail every new initiative we plan for the coming year nor to describe every line in the budget. Im here to speak to you and to the American People about the state of the union, about our world the changes weve seen, the challenges we face and what that means for america. There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after. And many of us in this chamber have lived much of our lives in a world whose fundamental features were defined i
An amendment that bears reminding that was one of the great contributions of the Republican Party to american life, second only to the abolition of slavery. For too long, we republicans have been content to lose the black vote. We found we did not need it to win. But when we gave up trying to win the support of african americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as part as the party of linkncoln. As the party of equal opportunity for all. It is time for us once again to reclaim our heritage as the only party in our country founded on the print for freedom for africanamerican. We know what democrats will propose in 2016. The same thing, the same thing the democrats have proposed for decades. More Government Spending on more government programs. And there is a proper and Important Role for government assistance and keeping people on their feet, but few president s have done more to expand government assistance than president obama. Today was and nearly 1 trillion per years on means tested an
Alzheimers is the sixth leading cause of death in the u. S. That disease and other forms of dementia take a devastating toll on patients, families and care give givers. It is dock meanted in this short film. My name is mary helen. Im the mother of 12 children and i loved each one of them. I was born august 19, 1924, in north carolina. The south was always hard on blacks. They didnt want to feel that you were equal with them. But i always felt like i was as good as anybody else. I had no inferior complex at all. In fact i was a little arrogant. I thought i could do anything. In high school, we were i think we were in the what was it the tenth grade. She was so kind and so nice, you know. I proposed to her in a letter. I wrote her a letter. I was in new york and asked her if she would marry me and she wrote me back and said yes. This one here, this is when we lived in lived on paris street and everyone was very, very young. Thats george, carla, quinn. It started about ten years ago. I tr
Alzheimers is the sixth leading cause of death in the u. S. That disease and other forms of dementia take a devastating toll on patients, families and care give givers. It is dock meanted in this short film. My name is mary helen. Im the mother of 12 children and i loved each one of them. I was born august 19, 1924, in north carolina. The south was always hard on blacks. They didnt want to feel that you were equal with them. But i always felt like i was as good as anybody else. I had no inferior complex at all. In fact i was a little arrogant. I thought i could do anything. In high school, we were i think we were in the what was it the tenth grade. She was so kind and so nice, you know. I proposed to her in a letter. I wrote her a letter. I was in new york and asked her if she would marry me and she wrote me back and said yes. This one here, this is when we lived in lived on paris street and everyone was very, very young. Thats george, carla, quinn. It started about ten years ago. I tr
Alzheimers is the sixth leading cause of death in the u. S. That disease and other forms of dementia take a devastating toll on patients, families and care give givers. It is dock meanted in this short film. My name is mary helen. Im the mother of 12 children and i loved each one of them. I was born august 19, 1924, in north carolina. The south was always hard on blacks. They didnt want to feel that you were equal with them. But i always felt like i was as good as anybody else. I had no inferior complex at all. In fact i was a little arrogant. I thought i could do anything. In high school, we were i think we were in the what was it the tenth grade. She was so kind and so nice, you know. I proposed to her in a letter. I wrote her a letter. I was in new york and asked her if she would marry me and she wrote me back and said yes. This one here, this is when we lived in lived on paris street and everyone was very, very young. Thats george, carla, quinn. It started about ten years ago. I tr