Speaking at West Point can define a presidency

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Speaking at West Point can define a presidency

FDR, Reagan and Bush have used academy setting

Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009

WASHINGTON - In June 2002 George W. Bush delivered a speech at West Point military academy that came to define his presidency. With the Afghan war still in the backdrop, President Barack Obama last night followed in his footsteps.

Mr. Bush travelled to the New York state institution months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to warn of a hard road ahead in the "war on terror" and to expound what would come to be known as the "Bush Doctrine" of preventive war.

"Our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives," he told the academy more than seven years ago.

Ye s t e r d ay, Mr. Ob a m a travelled to West Point for a speech that may also come to define his presidency.
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