President Obama's Oval Office Speech On Terrorism

New York Times: Obama Says of Terrorist Threat: ‘We Will Overcome It’

WASHINGTON — President Obama sought on Sunday to calm a jittery American public after the terrorist attack last week in California, delivering a prime-time address designed to highlight the government’s campaign against an evolving threat.

Speaking from behind a lectern in the Oval Office, Mr. Obama bluntly acknowledged the heightened fears that followed attacks in Paris and in San Bernardino, Calif., and called the California assault an “act of terrorism” that appeared to have been inspired, but not directed, by members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

“The terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase,” Mr. Obama said. “I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure.”

He added, “The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it.”

President Obama's Oval Office Speech On Terrorism

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