WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling on Americans to rekindle the spirit of unity that characterized the response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
“It can be a lasting virtue,” he said. “Not just on one day, but every day.”
The president made his appeal during his weekly radio and Internet address, two weeks before the 10th anniversary of the al-Qaeda plot that turned commercial jetliners into deadly weapons in New York, Pennsylvania and northern Virginia.
Obama cast his plea for goodwill against the backdrop of the country’s economic challenges. Coming in the aftermath of bitter partisan fights over government spending and tough criticism of his administration by Republican presidential candidates, his remarks were an overt call for greater cooperation. The Associated Press
