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Jackie Calmes: State of the Union gives Biden a fleeting taste of unity

For better and worse, President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address wasn't the speech he expected to deliver. For worse: Days into Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's deadly invasion of democratic Ukraine, Biden and his audience in the House chamber, as well as across the nation and the world, were preoccupied by grief for Ukrainians, and fear that this century could see the sort of ...
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol’ s House Chamber on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

For better and worse, President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address wasn't the speech he expected to deliver.

For worse: Days into Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's deadly invasion of democratic Ukraine, Biden and his audience in the House chamber, as well as across the nation and the world, were preoccupied by grief for Ukrainians, and fear that this century could see the sort of world war we'd thought had ended in the last.

Biden justifiably spent more time on foreign policy than is usual for these

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