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President Obama's Address

WTTW News | June 15, 2010, 7:00 pm

We bring you President Obama's first address from the Oval Office, where he'll be speaking about the BP oil spill. We also get reaction from a former political speechwriter.

  • What you can do to help with the oil spill--whitehouse.gov

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