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Every year, the President of the United States addresses a joint session of Congress to deliver his State of the Union address. Required by the U.S. Constitution, the address is the president’s chance to take stock of the current condition of the United States and lay out his political agenda for the new year. Presidents have long used new technology to share their message directly with the American people. Calvin Coolidge was the first president to broadcast the State …

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For the past three years at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, YouTube has partnered with WEF to give YouTube users the chance to send videos to world leaders. Fom a special production booth up the Swiss Alps, presidents, CEOs, and global change-makers respond directly to those videos throughout the conference. This year, we’re opening up the conference even further by allowing you to share your ideas using our new Moderator tool which will be incorporated into three different panel …

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When President Obama decides to travel outside Washington, all most people see is the speech he gives. But imagine what it must be like to coordinate the travel of the world’s most powerful leader. Security, logistics, media… it’s an undertaking that requires hundreds of people and thousands of man hours. Here’s a great behind the scenes look that the White House just posted detailing one of the more interesting and stressful places to work in government: the Presidential Advance team.
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