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Published: 06/14/10

Obama's Oval Office Address: Look to Jimmy Carter (No Kidding)

By  Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily
Obama's Oval Office Address: Look to Jimmy Carter (No Kidding)

More than 30 years ago in an era of gas lines and OPEC boycotts, Jimmy Carter addressed the American people from the Oval Office and confronted this political conundrum: "Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?" Tuesday night, in the first Oval Office address of his presidency, Barack Obama is going to confront the environmental consequences of America's three-decade failure to resolve its serious energy problem. Far more than the president's pedestrian East Room press conference in late May, this speech probably will be what voters ...

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