Remarks by President Obama in the Rose Garden, April 29, 2010

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010 – 1:54 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Hello, everybody.  Please have a seat.  Welcome to the White House.  Welcome to the Rose Garden.  This is an extraordinary occasion, a beautiful day — appropriately so.  So I hate to intrude on it, but before we begin I do want to speak briefly to the American people about the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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