New Delhi: US President Barack Obama, who leaves office on January 20 with a high approval rating of 55 per cent, will deliver his farewell speech in Chicago, his adoptive hometown, today. The cross-country trek on Air Force One - in which the President will be accompanied by First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden - has been scheduled in the middle of the power handover to President-elect Donald Trump.
It comes not only as the Democrats struggle to recover from the crushing defeat in the November elections but serious questions have been raised about the US democratic system.
The speech will be telecast live by NDTV at 7:30 am on Wednesday.
Lead speechwriter Cody Keenan has said the address will be about President Obama's vision for where the country should still go. "It's not going to be like an anti-Trump speech, it's not going to be a red meat, rabble rousing thing, it will be statesman-like but it will also be true to him," news agency AFP quoted Mr Keenan as saying. "It will tell a story."
Donald Trump has vowed to efface President Obama's legacy and hurled personal insults during a vitriolic election campaign. But during their meeting in White House after the election, Mr Obama told Mr Trump, "We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed. Because if you succeed, then the country succeeds."
It comes not only as the Democrats struggle to recover from the crushing defeat in the November elections but serious questions have been raised about the US democratic system.
The speech will be telecast live by NDTV at 7:30 am on Wednesday.
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Lead speechwriter Cody Keenan has said the address will be about President Obama's vision for where the country should still go. "It's not going to be like an anti-Trump speech, it's not going to be a red meat, rabble rousing thing, it will be statesman-like but it will also be true to him," news agency AFP quoted Mr Keenan as saying. "It will tell a story."
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Donald Trump has vowed to efface President Obama's legacy and hurled personal insults during a vitriolic election campaign. But during their meeting in White House after the election, Mr Obama told Mr Trump, "We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed. Because if you succeed, then the country succeeds."
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