WATCH: President Joe Biden To Deliver Farewell Address

January 16, 2025

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President Joe Biden will speak directly to Americans in his farewell address to the nation.

Biden will deliver his speech from the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House at 8 p.m.

Check out the address below:

Biden is set to leave office next week with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House for a second term. On Wednesday, he also released his farewell letter ahead of the address.

“It has been the privilege of my life to serve this nation for over 50 years. Nowhere else on Earth could a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, one day sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as President of the United States. I have given my heart and my soul to our nation. And I have been blessed a million times in return with the love and support of the American people,” Biden shared in his farewell letter.

“I ran for president 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. America is an idea stronger than any army and larger than any ocean. It’s the most powerful idea in the history of the world. That idea is that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We’ve never fully lived up to this sacred idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either. And I do not believe the American people will walk away from it now,” Biden said in the letter.

Click here to read the full letter.

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