Returning to U.S. soil after an around-the-world foreign policy trip, President Joe Biden portrayed the work as critical to remembering the lessons of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The timing of the trip would have made it impossible for the president to be in New York City, at the Pentagon or in a field in Pennsylvania, so the president headlined a Sept. 11 remembrance at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska.
“I spent many 9/11s at those hallowed grounds to bear witness and remember those we lost. Every day, but especially the last few days, their memory has been with me. I’m just returning from … the G-20 summit in India, where we strengthened America’s leadership on the global stage, followed by a historic trip to Vietnam where we transformed our partnership with one of the most critical regions of the world,” the president said Monday.
