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2:30 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, UAW! (Applause.) AUDIENCE: UAW! UAW! UAW! THE PRESIDENT: It’s great to be home. (Applause.) One of the best unions in the world. (Applause.) You look out for one another. And the whole country — the whole country benefits from what you do. You know — please take a seat…

Indian Treaty Room 12:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Kris, thank you, thank you, thank you.  First of all, thank you for the courage you’ve shown over the years dealing with your health issues but also for standing up here before the whole nation and explaining to us what you’ve gone through.  It’s not easy to…

Pacific Northwest Carpenter’s InstitutePortland, Oregon 2:19 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you — hello, hello, hello?  Is this working — there we go.  Thank you.  Please, have a seat if you have one.  (Laughs.) I — Gov, a little premature, I know, but you’re going to be our next governor.  (Applause.)  You know, I wrote…

South Lawn 5:31 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Well, Chaplain, thank you for getting this started.  And, you know, we had wished for good weather.  You’re probably all going, “I wish it was cooler right now.”  (Laughter.) But thank you all for being here. Good evening, my fellow Americans.  Today we mark the 246th anniversary for…

Washington Hilton HotelWashington, D.C. 11:41 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, hello, hello. AUDIENCE:  Hello! THE PRESIDENT:  If you have a seat, take one.  (Laughter.) Thank you so very, very much.  You know, I want to thank Commissioner McGuire from Ramsey County, Minnesota.  You know, the fact is that it’s an honor to join all of you. …

3:09 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, hello, hello!  Well, folks, please take a seat if you have one.  (Laughter.) I said that some time ago — “take a seat” — and there weren’t any seats in the room.  And they said, “See?  That Biden, he doesn’t even know there’s no seats.”  (Laughter.) At any rate,…

Washington Hilton HotelWashington, D.C. 12:08 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello!  (Applause.)  Hello, hello, hello!  (Applause.)  It’s good to be home.  (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you.  As my mother would say, “God love you.”  Please have a seat if you have one.  I don’t wa- — (laughs) — want you all to have to…

Private ResidenceHouston, Texas 1:40 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Whoa.  Holy mackerel.  (Applause.)  I’m — folks, I never thought I’d be down in this garage with a better scene than all those vehicles, but you are.  (Laughter.) And please sit down, if you have a seat. Well, John Eddie and Sheridan, thank you for hosting me…

Intel Ocotillo CampusChandler, Arizona 12:20 P.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) By the way, your dad is right about unions. (Laughter.) Your dad is right: Unions built the middle class. Wall Street didn’t. Unions built the middle class. (Applause.) So, thanks, Tilden, for that introduction and — a union sheet metal worker, a…

6:09 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Please.  Please, sit down. What — what generous introductions. Folks, as I was being introduced, I thought to myself how much — and you wouldn’t know this necessarily — this state has meant to me and my career and, quite frankly, my emotional sanity.  (Laughter.)  And…