President Joe Biden bid farewell to Americans on Wednesday with a prime-time Oval Office address defending his record and issuing dire warnings about threats of a potential “oligarchy” and the powerful technology sector.
His remarks capped a career in Washington that has spanned a half century, beginning with a long run in the Senate followed by eight years as vice president and later four as the 46th commander in chief. And Biden made clear that he will, if reluctantly, hand the keys of state Monday to President-elect Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent he ousted in 2020.
Biden, whose legacy has been clouded by damaging missteps, hailed the U.S. as “a nation of pioneers and explorers, of dreamers and doers, of ancestors native to this land, of ancestors who came by force.”
