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History may record March 7, 2024, as the last good night of Joe Biden’s political career. That was when the president came to the House chamber to deliver a combative and surprisingly lively State of the Union address that, for a brief moment, allayed the doubts about his age and ability that would ultimately sink his candidacy.
Biden began his speech that night by speaking, as he often does, of Franklin Roosevelt. In January 1941, Biden told his audience, Roosevelt, too, had come to the Capitol to deliver a State of the Union—an urgent message about Hitler’s threat to democracy and global peace known to history as the Four Freedoms speech.
