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President Biden is willing to do that his farewell address to the nation Wednesday evening as he closes four years in the White House.
Biden will deliver the address at 8:00 PM ET from the Oval Office, after releasing a farewell letter to the country on Wednesday.
“Four years ago, we found ourselves in a winter of danger and a winter of opportunity. We were facing the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on our democracy since Civil War. War,” Biden wrote.
“But we came together as Americans and got through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous and more secure.”
President Biden arrives aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, August 15, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden will officially leave the Oval Office on January 20, when President-elect Trump will to be inaugurated as the 47th president around noon that day.
Biden has spent more than 50 years in public office, putting his mark on the national map in 1972, the year President Richard Nixon was re-elected, when he defeated a Republican incumbent in a long-shot Senate race in Delaware at 29 years .
President Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his re-election bid. (Evan Vucci, Pool via AP)
“I he ran for the presidency because I believed that the soul of America was at stake. The very nature of who we are was at stake. And that’s still the case,” he added in his farewell letter.
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“America is an idea stronger than any army and bigger than any ocean. It is the most powerful idea in the history of the world. This idea is that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rightsamong them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have never lived up to this sacred idea, but we have not strayed from it either. And I don’t think the American people are going to walk away from it now.”
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2021. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)
Biden turned 36 the US Senate, one of the longest Senate runs in the chamber’s history, before joining former President Barack Obama’s ticket during the 2008 election and serving as vice president for eight years.
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The 46th president defeated Trump in the 2020 election and ran again last year, but abruptly dropped out of the presidential race as concerns grew about his mental acuity. Vice President Kamala Harris was soon quickly endorsed by Biden and other high-profile Democrats to take over as the party’s presidential nominee, but lost the election as Trump swept the seven battleground states.
President Biden and former President Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Biden has been an outspoken and repeated critic of Trump, calling him a “genuine threat to this nation,” but vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power and that he would “of course” attend Trump’s inauguration.
Before his final speech in America, Biden also delivered one farewell focused on foreign policy speech at the State Department on Monday.
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“America is winning the world race compared to four years ago,” Biden said in his final foreign policy address on Monday.
“America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are weaker,” he added.
