Well, today, to an audience at the State Department, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken,

introduced the President of the United States for the last time.

Simply put, it's been the privilege of my lifetime to work for you, to work with you,

to work with this extraordinary team that you've assembled.

And it's the honor of a lifetime to be able to introduce one more time.

The 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's good to be back

at the State Department. President Biden gave a 28-minute speech

today that was a foreign policy assessment of where the United States stands now in the world

at the end of the Biden presidency. But because it was a Biden speech, it began with domestic policy

because more than any other president of our lifetimes, Joe Biden has always presented foreign policy and domestic policy as related as two sides of the same coin.

During my presidency, I have increased America's power at every dimension. We've increased our diplomatic

power, creating more allies the United States has ever had in the history of our nation.

We've increased our military power, making the most significant investments in the defense

industrial base in decades. We've increased the technology power, taking the lead in artificial intelligence

and other technologies of the future. And we've increased the economic power, building the most

dynamic economy in the world from the bottom up and the middle out, not to top down. In short,

Kamala and I took office our nation had become stronger at home, are stronger in the world.

And now, America is more capable and I would argue better prepared than we've been in a long, long time.

That was the essence of the assessment that President Biden then went on to deliver with more detail.

We have made the most significant investments in America and the American workers since the New Deal.

To rebuild our roads and bridges, our ports and airports, clean water systems, affordable high-speed internet, and so much more

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