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Male Speakers: Welcome
to West Wing Week.

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Welcome to the
West Wing Week,

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your guide to everything
that's happening at

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
and on the opposite

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side of the planet.

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This week the President
visited Burma for

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the second time in his
presidency, attended

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the G20 Summit in
Australia, worked

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to expand access to
broadband and 21st century

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technology in our schools, and
addressed the nation about the

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steps he's taking to fix our
broken immigration system.

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It's November 14th to November
20th, or Mingalarbar.

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Female Speaker:
Mingalarbar.

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Narrator: On Friday,
the President landed in

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Rangoon, Burma, and visited the
site where General Aung San,

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a leader of the Burmese
independence movement,

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was killed in 1947.
Sixty-seven years later,

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Burma has made
important progress in

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becoming a free
and open democracy,

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in large part because of
the General's daughter,

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Aung San Suu Kyi, who's
dedicated her life

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to bringing
democracy to Burma.

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The two leaders held a
joint news conference,

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where they urged the
government and people

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of Burma to push
for more democratic

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reforms and hold free
and fair elections.

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Aung San Suu Kyi: If we
want democracy we have

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to be prepared to live by
the principles of democracy.

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We have to dare
to live according

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to the principles
of democracy.

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I think we'll get
there, but it'll take

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us some time.

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But we will remain
fully committed

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to the principle
of nonviolence.

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Narrator: Then the President
stopped by the U.S. embassy

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to thank staff and their
families for their service.

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The President:
There's Barnie.

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Narrator: Before departing
Burma, the President

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participated in the town
hall with students who are

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part of the Young Southeast
Asian Leaders Initiative,

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a program the President
himself established in order

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to engage the next
generation of leaders

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in this dynamic
region of the world.

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The President: (speaking
foreign language)

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That means "Dive until
you reach the sand,

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climb until you reach the
top, keep persevering."

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Narrator: Saturday
the President was in

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Brisbane, Australia for the
last leg of this epic,

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eight-day foreign trip.
First on the day's

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agenda was a speech
to students at the

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University of Queensland,
where he highlighted

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the unshakeable alliance
between the United States

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and Australia, and outlined
his vision for advancing

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democracy and cooperation
in the Asia Pacific.

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Next it was time to kick
off the G20 Summit.

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Australian prime minister
Tony Abbott welcome

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the President and other
world leaders to the summit,

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and then the leaders
participated in a series

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of meetings to discuss
economic cooperation

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on issues like development,
energy, and trade.

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On Sunday, before
departing for the long

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trip back to D.C., the
President held a news

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conference to reflect on the
progress that was made over

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the two days of talks.

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Then it was time to board
Air Force One and embark

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on the 9,469 mile journey
over the Pacific Ocean,

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with a refueling stop in
Hawaii, and finally home,

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back in Washington,
D.C. On Tuesday,

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the President met with
his national security

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and public health teams to
discuss the Ebola response,

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both at home and abroad.
Outside of the West Wing,

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Administration officials
demonstrated a new

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plug-in hybrid bucket truck,
and unveiled commitments

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by more than 70 electric
utility companies to

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purchase more plug-in
electric vehicles.

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Counselor to the President
John Podesta donned

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a hard hat, and took a spin
in the truck's cherry picker.

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On Wednesday the Vice
President arrived in Morocco,

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and began his visit
by meeting with

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King Mohammed VI.

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The next day the Vice
President attended the

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Global Entrepreneurship
Summit, where he met with --

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well, global entrepreneurs
and delivered

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the key note address.

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The Vice President: You
have a chance like no other

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generation in human history to
leave a more prosperous,

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more open, more dynamic, and
more just world than you found.

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Narrator: The summit also
marked a momentous occasion

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in geopolitics, the Vice
President's birthday.

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Audience: Happy
birthday to you.

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Narrator: That evening the
Vice President and Dr. Biden

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departed Morocco for Ukraine.
Back at the White House

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the President welcomed
school leaders, educators,

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and students to a ConnectED
event in the East Room.

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ConnectED is an
initiative to bring

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digital learning and
high speed internet

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to classrooms all
across the country.

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The President: We've got to make
sure these devices are within

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reach of our students, because outside of school they're

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certainly understanding
how to use technology.

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That's where they're
living, and if we aren't

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incorporating that into
how they are learning

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in the classroom, then
we're not doing our job.

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You showed up.

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Female Speaker: Hi.

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The President:
How you doing?

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Female Speaker:
How are you?

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The President: Good
to see you, man.

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How you doing?

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Narrator: On Thursday the
President and First Lady

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invited youth from the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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to visit the Oval Office,
and have lunch

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at a local Capitol
Hill restaurant.

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The President: I know
it's cold up there, man.

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(laughter)

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The President: So this is
like a Florida vacation, right?

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(laughter)

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Narrator: That night in prime time the President delivered

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an address to the nation
where he announced steps that

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he would take to reform our
broken immigration system.

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The President: My fellow
Americans, we are

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and always will be a
nation of immigrants.

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We were strangers
once too, and whether

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our forbearers were
strangers who crossed

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the Atlantic or the Pacific,
or the Rio Grande, we are

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here only because this country welcomed them in, and taught

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them that to be an American is about something more than what

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we look like, or what our last
names are, or how we worship.

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Narrator: So remember, you can
find out more information about

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any of these topics, and
see complete videos of

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these events at whitehouse.gov,
and thanks again

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for checking out this edition
of your West Wing Week.

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The President: If you
don't have a pass.

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(laughter)