President Barack Obama Writes One Last Letter to the American People
A message of gratitude from the POTUS.
After eight years, President Obama will finally return to life as a private citizen tomorrow, ceding his post to President-Elect Donald J. Trump. As is tradition, the President usually writes and leaves a letter to their incumbent successor to read upon the latter’s arrival in the Oval Office, but Obama made sure to also write one last letter addressed the American people. In it, #44 thanks the people, hailing them as his primary inspiration and “the source of goodness, resilience, and hope.”
The departing POTUS made sure to give one last rallying cry, assuring Americans that, irrespective of politics and whatever obstacles may lay in the path ahead, that there is always strength in numbers and in hope:
All of us, regardless of party, should throw ourselves into that work — the joyous work of citizenship. Not just when there’s an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime.
I’ll be right there with you every step of the way.
And when the arc of progress seems slow, remember: America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We the People.’ ‘We shall overcome.’
