In Independence Day Address, Obama Calls for Americans To Live up to Declaration
‘On July 4, 1776, a small band of patriots declared that we were a people created equal, free to think and worship and live as we please’
On Fourth of July, Obama recalls Declaration of Independence (CBS News)
President Barack Obama is urging Americans on the Fourth of July to live up to the words of the Declaration of Independence by securing liberty and opportunity for their own children as well as for future generations.
In his weekly radio and online address, Obama commemorates the Fourth of July by looking back at the day in 1776 that a small band of patriots declared those in the American colonies "a people created equal" -- free to think and worship and live as they please.
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