Follow this link to read the prepared remarks that the President gave to the school children of the nation on September 9, 2009.

Our son-in-law Chuck, Sharon, and I were discussing many of these topics yesterday without any knowledge of what the President was going to say. Much of what the President said matches pretty closely with the message that we would have liked to deliver if we had been asked to make the speech.

I like President Obama, not because I agree with what he thinks, but because he agrees with what I think.

George H. W. Bush Address to Jr. High School Students 10/01/1991

Reagan Address to Jr. High School Students 11/14/1988