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Biden began his speech at 8:00 p.m. EST from the Oval Office. [1] Biden's wife Jill, [2] his son Hunter, Hunter's wife Melissa, their son Beau, Biden's granddaughter Finnegan, and vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were present in the Oval Office during the speech. [3]
The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech," though it is broader in that it may include geographical or even biological conclusion. In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion (ἀποβατήριον), standing opposed to the epibaterion, the corresponding speech made upon arrival. [1]
During the Oct. 29 speech, Harris said Trump had been "at this very spot … and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election."
The venue of her major speech — the Ellipse — is a symbolic one. The 52-acre park outside the White House’s South Lawn is where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held his “Stop ...
With just one week to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered Tuesday what her campaign called a “closing argument address” from the Ellipse in Washington, DC, in which ...
The speech was depicted in the opening of the 1991 film JFK. [13] In 2025, President Joe Biden invoked the "military-industrial complex" phrasing from Eisehower's address in his own farewell address, saying that he was "concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country." [14]
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to deliver a final-stretch closing argument address next week at the same location her rival delivered a fiery speech on January 6, 2021 that set in motion the ...
An Oval Office address is a type of speech made by the president of the United States, usually in the Oval Office at the White House. [1] It is considered among the most solemn settings for an address made by a leader, and is most often delivered to announce a major new policy initiative, on the occasion of a leader's departure from office, or ...