Barack Obama\u2019s term as president of the United States will come to an end next week, but before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as our next commander in chief, Obama will give one final farewell speech to the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, January 10 at 9\u00a0p.m. EST, Obama will take to the airways to say his goodbyes and take time to reflect on the past eight\u00a0years of American history, likely touching on\u00a0his keynote legislation,\u00a0Obamacare.<\/p>\n
As TIME<\/em> notes, Obama will only be\u00a0the 10th president in U.S. history\u00a0to give an official farewell speech. He will now join the annals of history alongside\u00a0George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.\u00a0<\/p>\n No matter your political beliefs, this speech will be worth watching as it\u2019s the closing of one chapter and the beginning of another in our collective national history.\u00a0<\/p>\n The speech will be aired on major media networks, including NBC, CBS, and ABC, as well as\u00a0airing on the White House website. You can also tune in right here and watch his entire speech below.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barack Obama\u2019s term as president of the United States will come to an end next week, but before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as our next commander in chief, Obama will give one final farewell speech to the nation.\u00a0 On Tuesday, January 10 at 9\u00a0p.m. EST, Obama will take to the airways to say…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}