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In final State of Union, Obama aims to define his presidency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Out of
time to push a new legislative
agenda,
President
Barack
Obama will look past Congress
and to the American people in his
final State of the Union address,
aiming to define his presidency
and his legacy before others can
do it for him.
For his seventh address,
Obama plans to skips the traditional list of grand proposals,
new policies and presidential
appeals for new laws in favor of a
broad overview of what he has
accomplished since 2009 and
what is undone in his final year
in office. Aides said the president
on Tuesday night will give his
assessment of what the country
looks like in 2016 and the direction he hopes it will take in the
future.
To the extent he can, Obama
will try to give a burst of energy
to initiatives he is hoping to push
past beyond the life of his administration.
Advisers who met with Obama
as he readied his recent executive actions on gun control said

the president gave this guidance:
“Everything this year should be
infused with a sense of possibility” and “don’t take the foot off the
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