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What could Obama highlight in his farewell speech?
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Jan 9, 2017
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What could Obama highlight in his farewell speech?
President Obama is scheduled to make a farewell speech in Chicago Tuesday evening. Presidential historian, Julian Zelizer joins Take Two to discuss what to expect.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a farewell speech on Tuesday night in Chicago, nearly a decade after first declaring his candidacy for President.
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President Obama is scheduled to make a farewell speech in Chicago Tuesday evening. Presidential historian, Julian Zelizer joins Take Two to discuss what to expect.

President Obama is scheduled to make a farewell speech in Chicago Tuesday evening, capping two terms as President.  It's likely to include efforts to burnish his legacy during a time of political division and rancor.

"I think we will remember this as an incredibly partisan period in American politics," said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.

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