White House officials have said the speech will be less of a list of
legislative goals, focusing instead on what Obama can do on his own to
cement his legacy on the economy, healthcare, climate and foreign
policy.
Barack Obama looking fly
President Barack Obama
plans to travel next week to two Republican-leaning states - Nebraska
and Louisiana - to promote the themes of his final State of the Union
address, the White House said on Friday.
Obama,
who has begun his last year in the Oval Office, will give the annual
televised address to Congress on Tuesday at 9 p.m. (0900 ET on
Wednesday).
"It's my last one," the Democratic president said in a short video preview on the White House website.
Obama
said the speech would focus on "not just the remarkable progress we've
made, not just what I want to get done in the year ahead, but what we
all need to do together in the years to come."
White
House officials have said the speech will be less of a list of
legislative goals, focusing instead on what Obama can do on his own to
cement his legacy on the economy, healthcare, climate and foreign
policy.
On Wednesday, Obama will travel to Omaha,
Nebraska, only his second visit to that state as president. On Thursday,
he will travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a state he has visited 10
times since taking office in 2009. He did not carry either state in his
two presidential election victories.
The White
House provided few details about his events in the states, but noted
each of them had benefited from the Affordable Care Act, Obama's
signature healthcare reforms, and from a strengthening economy since the
recession early in his presidency.
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