On This Thanksgiving: Family, Turkey … and a Weekly Address

Happy Thanksgiving
Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones. American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share. Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve. So tomorrow, I’ll be giving thanks for my family — for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life. But tomorrow is also a day to remember those who cann

Weekly Address: Traveling Abroad for Our Economy at Home
In an address recorded in Seoul, South Korea, the President discusses his trip to Asia. He talks about his push to stop nuclear proliferation in North Korea, Iran, and around the world. He talks about promoting America’s principles for an open society in China while making progress on joint efforts to combat climate change. And talks in-depth about the primary objective of his trip: engaging in new markets that hold tremendous potential to spur job creation here at home.

Weekly Address: Traveling Abroad for Our Economy at Home

Obama admits Guantanamo won’t close by Jan. deadline
By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writer BEIJING — President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year. Obama refused, however, to set a new deadline. In an interview in the Chinese capital with Major Garrett of Fox News , Obama claimed he was “not disappointed” that the Guantanamo deadline had slipped, saying he “knew this was going to be hard.” Read the full story: