# What did the president say last night?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 28, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218 "2001-02-28T15:54:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Omega007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9adbd/32.png) [@Omega007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega007)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218/1 "2001-02-28T15:54:38Z")

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Today is Wed. Feb. 28 and last night the president came on tv and was saying something that I would assume was important, because almost every channel was interrupted. What I want to know is what did he say that was so improtant? I know I should have watched last night, but I decided to go and do some studying for a financial accounting test I have today and eventually pass out on the floor. I woke up this morning and couldn’t watch the news to find out what he said because I woke up a short time before my class had to start. So what I am aksing is a brief summary of what the president said last night.

Thanks,

Omega007

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218/2 "2001-02-28T16:03:22Z")

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Here’s some places to get speech coverage:

> **[CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos](https://www.cnn.com)**
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> View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

> **[Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/)**
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> America is Watching.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218/3 "2001-02-28T18:03:53Z")

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I’m glad you trust your fellow contributors to this site and all, **Omega** , but dammit, it’s just not healthy to get literally all of your information from a single source.

The internet is _huge_. Try it sometime. Here, this will get you started: The White House publishes all of the President’s speeches on it’s Web Page.

[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/02/20010228.html](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/02/20010228.html)

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218/4 "2001-03-01T00:12:43Z")

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Just look at the newspaper front pages, they sum all that boredom up in one line.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218/5 "2001-03-01T01:29:52Z")

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**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-president-say-last-night/56218/6 "2001-03-02T14:48:34Z")

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Just a little correction – you forgot the quotation marks when you referred to the “president.” His title is “President” George Bush. When speaking the words, of course, please remember to use the two-finger quotation-mark gesture.

Thank you!