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    The state of the union is anxious, but annual speech to Congress offers Biden an opportunity

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 2022 4 minutes
    US President Joe Biden waves as he walks to Marine One prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 25, 2022, as they travel to spend the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware.

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden took office 13 months ago vowing to halt the COVID-19 pandemic, improve the economy, soften America's calcifying partisan division, restore faith in Washington's leadership on the world stage and prove that democracies can function and deliver.

    As he prepares for his first State of the Union address on Tuesday — at a moment of rising anxiety across the nation and the world — those endeavors remain works in progress, at best.

    "No president in my memory has had so many crises dumped onto him in the first year as Biden has, and the speech has to be equal to that," said Bob Shrum, a longtime Democratic speechwriter who aided President Clinton with his State of

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