Barack Obama: “On Monday, the President will participate in a Memorial Day ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power