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South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 1:43 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  We’re waiting for a few more people to get on, but we’re going to get started if that’s okay with you all.  And thanks for joining me.  I’m here — the FEMA Director is on.  FEMA Director Criswell — she’s on.…

South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 1:05 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  I want to thank — you can take these off while we’re speaking.  I want to thank our participants that are here, as well as those who are on Zoom.  And this is, to state the obvious, an important get-together here.  And I’m going to make…

South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 9:26 A.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, Mr. Surgeon General Murthy.  And I just — in front of all of the friends who are here, I just have to tell you he has been tireless for months and months, working on this issue.  And so in front of…

South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 10:50 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everyone.  It is a good morning.  (Laughs.)  It’s a good morning.  As we get prepared to celebrate Independence Day, today’s job news brought us something else to celebrate.  This morning we learned that, in June, our economy created 850,000 jobs.  Eight hundred and…

South Court Auditorium 1:41 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today, the Vice President and I would like to lay out our plan for June, to counter — continue, I should say, our successful fight against the pandemic as we approach the July 4th date. In just four months, thanks to the American people, we…

South Court Auditorium 4:12 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon again.  Tomorrow, we will cross 250 million vaccine shots administered since I took office.  I think it’s a pretty consequential achievement for the nation. I promised I’d keep you up to date every 50 million shots, and today I have an important update.  Last week,…

South Court Auditorium 2:28 P.M. EST  THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, folks.  How are you?  Welcome.  Welcome.  I wish you were here in person.  One of these days, we’re going to be able to do that again.  I want to thank you for joining us, and Happy New Year. And before we begin, I want to say…

South Court Auditorium 2:30 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.  Last week, we set a goal of 200 million shots by day 100 of our administration — double the original goal that I had set.  And to make that progress, over the last three days, we’ve had a record number of shots in arms with…

South Court Auditorium 1:45 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everyone. Back in December, I set a goal of administering 100 million shots — vaccine shots in my first 100 days in office.  At the time, some told us that it couldn’t be done, it was awfully ambitious.  But we did it in 58 days…

South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building Thank you, Jeff.  And I too want to just publicly thank you, Jeff, for all the work that you are doing.  He works around the clock and always rises to the occasion.  And there are many challenges for all of us who have assumed a role of leadership at…