<searchTitle>Farewell Address to the Nation; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Vol. 45, No. 2</searchTitle>
<granuleClass>PRESDOCU</granuleClass>
<accessId>WCPD-2009-01-19-Pg79-2</accessId>
<eventDate>2009-01-15</eventDate>
<president id="GWB" party="R">
<name type="authority-lnf">Bush, George W.</name>
<name type="authority-fnf">George W. Bush</name>
<name type="authority-other">George Bush</name>
<name type="authority-other">George Walker Bush</name>
...</president>
<category1>Addresses to the Nation</category1>
<notes>The President spoke at 8:01 p.m. in the East Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Malia and Natasha ``Sasha'' Obama, daughters of President-elect Barack Obama; Arlene Howard, mother of Port Authority Police officer George Howard, who was killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001; Dr. Anthony ``Tony'' Recasner, principal, Samuel J. Green Charter School, New Orleans, LA; and Julio Medina, executive director, Exodus Transitional Community, New York, NY. The Office of the Press Secretary also released a Spanish language transcript of this address.</notes>