President Obama delivered his final weekly White House address

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published 14 January 2017

President Obama delivered his final weekly White House address on Saturday, musing on his time in office and asking Americans to be "guardians of our democracy."

"Whether we've seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the American people — in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant military outposts — are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going," he said. "Every day, I learned from you. You made me a better president, and you made me a better man."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.