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Multiple Speakers:
Welcome to West Wing Week.

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Narrator: Welcome to
the West Wing Week,

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your guide to everything that's
happening at 1600 Pennsylvania

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Avenue and beyond.

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This week the President focused
on students and

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college affordability.

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The President: I'm
all fired up now.

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Narrator: At Benedict College.

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The President: Got to
make sure the mic works.

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Narrator: Georgia Tech, and
back at the people's house.

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The President: Cheese.

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It actually works
if you (inaudible).

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Narrator: As for Dr. Biden,
she met with community college

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students in
Gainesville and Austin.

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The First Lady hosted
a Nowruz celebration,

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and the First Family marched to
mark an important anniversary.

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That's March 6th to March 12th,
or the single most

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powerful word.

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Multiple Speakers:
(inaudible) Narrator: On

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Friday, the President
traveled to Benedict College,

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a historically black liberal
arts college in Columbia,

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South Carolina, for a
town hall with students.

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The President: Do you
always wear a tie,

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or you just wore it today?

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(laughter) Male Speaker:
I wear it all the time.

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The President: Okay, good.

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(laughter) Yeah, I like that.

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We've got to ensure not
just the absence of formal,

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legal oppression, but the
presence of an active dynamic

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opportunity, good jobs
that pay good wages,

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a good start for every child,
healthcare for every family,

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a higher education that prepares
you for the world without

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crippling you with debt, a fair
and more just legal and criminal

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justice system.

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Female Speaker: Fired up.

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The President: Fired up.

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Female Speaker: Ready to go.

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The President: Ready to go.

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Female Speaker: Fired up.

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The President: Fired up.

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Female Speaker: Ready to go.

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The President: Ready to go.

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(laughter) Narrator: He also
stopped by for a surprise

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lunchtime visit to the
Brookland Baptist Church,

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one of the largest African
American churches in the state.

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Male Speaker: And I left my
phone in the car, oh my god.

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Male Speaker: I tell you what,
I'll take some pictures,

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and I'll send them
to your phone.

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Narrator: On Saturday the First
Family traveled to Selma,

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Alabama to march the 50th
anniversary of the Selma to

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Montgomery marches, a milestone
in the Civil Rights Movements.

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Joined by congressman and
civil rights icon John Lewis,

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President George W.

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Bush, and Mrs. Bush, the
President spoke to a crowd of

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more than 40,000 people in front
of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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The President: Because the
single most powerful word in our

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democracy is the word 'we.' We
the people, we shall overcome.

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Yes, we can.

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That word is owned by no one.

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It belongs to everyone.

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We honor those who
walked so we could run.

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We must run so
our children soar.

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Narrator: Foot soldiers who
braved the march 50 years ago,

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despite tear gas, clubs, and
violence -- The President: So

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nice to see you.

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Narrator: -- joined hands with
the First Family to walk across

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the bridge that day, a somber,
but celebratory reminder of how

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far we've come and the
courage it took to get here.

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The First Lady: One of the foot
soldiers was a woman who said

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she was 14 years old
when she marched.

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She was so scared.

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The woman who is 111, she made
her go through with the march,

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because she said that if you
walk away now you'll let your

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fears guide you and
rule you forever.

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And she went ahead with the
march, but on that day,

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she got her head beaten in.

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And for me, I thought
about that and thought,

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that would have been
Sasha on that day.

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Narrator: Then the First Family
toured the National Voting

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Rights Museum and Institute, and
the President sat down for an

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interview with
CBS's Bill Plante.

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Plante's a journalist who
actually covered the marches

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back in 1965.

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The President: I'd start reading
about -- Narrator: On Monday the

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President introduced a new
initiative called Tech Higher,

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a multi-sector effort to get
more Americans rapidly trained

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for well-paying technology jobs.

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Tech Higher builds on the
momentum of the past five years,

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when American businesses have
created more than 12 million

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new jobs.

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Meanwhile, Dr. Biden and
Undersecretary of Education

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Dr. Ted Mitchell toured
community colleges in

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Gainesville, Florida,
and Austin, Texas.

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Dr. Biden: Community colleges
have so much to offer you.

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They offer mentors, they
offer writing centers,

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they offer math labs.

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(laughter) Narrator:
Back at the ranch,

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the President welcomed European
Council President Donald Tusk to

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the Oval Office to discuss
pressing foreign policy issues,

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such as Ukraine and the
Transatlantic Trade and

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Investment Partnership,
otherwise known as TTIP.

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On Tuesday, the President took
his student aid bill of rights

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for a road test, presenting it
to a representative sample of

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the very people he wrote it for,
10,000 students at Georgia Tech.

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The President: So if you agree
with the basic values that I

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outlined, if you believe in a
student aid bill of rights that

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will help more Americans
pay for a quality education,

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then sign your name
to this declaration.

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You can go to a website, because
you guys like tech stuff.

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(laughter) You go to

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whitehouse.gov/collegeopportunit y.

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Narrator: On Wednesday morning
the aromatic White House kitchen

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was busy preparing for
Nowruz, the Persian new year,

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celebrated by more than 300
million people across the Middle

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East, Central and Southwest
Asia, and Eastern Europe.

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Maziar Farivar: So this
celebration is celebration of

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spring coming up.

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We say good bye to the winter,
all the cold and sort of

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darkness of winter, and welcome
in the brightness of spring.

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The First Lady: And
after a long winter,

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we can use a little
bit of all that, right?

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(laughter) Finally thawing out.

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You're ready.

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(laughter) Payam Yousefi: I'm so
excited to be able to share a

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part of my heritage, my culture,
and I'm honored with the fact

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that the White House is willing
to share this with a large

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crowd, and high
light it as well.

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It's just that I cannot express
how excited I am about this.

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Narrator: In the afternoon the
White House teamed up with Arne

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Duncan to discuss the student
aid bill of rights with college

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newspapers over the phone,
and to their surprise,

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the President hopped on
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and to go through his proposal.

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Jennifer Friedman:
Mr. President?

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The President: Hey, everybody.

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Yesterday I took new action to
make it easier for students to

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pay for college, pay off their
loans through an executive

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action that streamlines and
improves the way the federal

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government interacts with
students when it comes to

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student loans, helps students
cut through the bureaucracy,

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and get faster responses
about their loans.

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Narrator: At the end of the day
the President got to spend some

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time with some of his
favorites, kid scientists,

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who are finalists in the 2015
Intel Science Talent Search.

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The President: I could not be
more impressed with

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how you've done.

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Narrator: So stay engaged
with us online and remember,

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you can find out more
information about any of these

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topics, or see complete
videos of these events at

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whitehouse.gov, and thanks again
for checking out this edition of

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your West Wing Week.

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The President: "How do you
make Obama's eyes light up?

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Shine a flashlight in his ears."

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(laughs) That's pretty good.

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"Somebody send Obama some life
hacks on how to be a good

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president.

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Ha-ha.

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Like I bet that would help.

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LOL."

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You know, the LOL is redundant
when you have the ha-ha.

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"I'm all right with the
President wearing jeans.

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I'm not all right with the
President wearing those jeans."

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Jimmy Kimmel: Can I
just say something?

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The President: Yeah, Jimmy.

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Jimmy Kimmel: I
think that's mean,

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and I don't think there's
anything wrong with the jeans

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you wear.

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The President: Jimmy, I
think they've got a point.

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Have you been working out.

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(laughter)

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The President: All right.

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Female Speaker:
That was perfect.