Thousands of miles away, the president's audience was very much back home.
In a mid-afternoon speech Friday at this famed promontory over the English Channel, President Joe Biden hailed the memory of 225 U.S. Army rangers who scaled the 150-foot cliffs 80 years ago. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPOINTE-DU-HOC, France — President Joe Biden came to Normandy on Thursday to deliver a warning to the world not to squander the legacy of D-Day.In a mid-afternoon speech Friday at this famed promontory over the English Channel, Biden hailed the memory of those 225 U.S.
“We must also be the keepers of their mission, the keepers of their mission, the bearers of the flame of freedom that they kept burning bright,” Biden said, speaking before an audience of around 150 people. “To come here simply to remember the ghosts of Pointe-du-Hoc isn’t enough.” Biden didn’t issue explicit pleas to an electorate skeptical about the ability of the government to address big problems. But he tacitly called on them to internalize the lessons of those who scaled the cliffs 80 years ago.
Despite having shared a stage with roughly 170 surviving veterans commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery one day earlier, the White House had decided to make a return trip to the region, in part to allow for Biden to have a different type of stage from which to speak. Whereas the commemoration ceremony was elegiac and somber, Friday’s remarks were presented as an opportunity for the president to triumphantly reaffirm his world vision.
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