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Hello, and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host,
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Mark Francis. There's a lot going on with King Charles's
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visit to the US, so we'll bring you a couple
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of bonus episodes today and tomorrow covering some of the
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events and speeches that he is making. And last night
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he addressed Congress, and we'll bring you the whole speech
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right here.
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Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct
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honor of presenting to you his Majesty Charles the Third, the.
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Vice President, Mister Speaker, Members of Congress, representatives of the
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American people across all States, territories, cities.
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And communities.
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I would like if I meant to take this opportunity
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to express my particular gratitude to you all for the
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great honor of addressing this joint meeting of Congress, and
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on behalf of the Queen and myself, to thank the
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American people for welcoming as us to the United States
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to mark this semi quins centennial year of the Declaration
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of Independence, and for.
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All of that time, aren't you lucky?
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And for all of that time our destinies as nations
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have been interlinked. As Oscar Wilde said, we have rarely
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everything in common with America nowadays, except of course, language
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so notten. We meet in times of great uncertainty, in
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times of conflict from Europe to the Middle East, which
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pose immense challenges for the international community, and whose impact
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is felt in communities. The lengths and breadth of our
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own countries. We meet too, in the aftermath of the incident,
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are not far from this great building that sought to
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harm the leadership of your nation and to ferment wider
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fear and discord. Let me say, with unshakable resolve, such
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acts of violence will never succeed. Whatever our differences, whatever
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disagreements we may have, we stand united in our commitment
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to uphold democracy, to protect all our people from harm,
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and to salute the courage of those who daily risk
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their lives in the service of our our countries. Standing
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here today, it is hard not to feel the weight
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of history on my shoulder, because the modern relationship between
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our two nations and our own peoples spans not merely
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two hundred and fifty years, but over four centuries. It
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is extraordinary to think that I am the nineteenth in
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our line of sovereigns to study with daily attention the
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affairs of America. So I come here today with the
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highest respect for the United States Congress, this citadel of
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democracy created to represent the voice of all American people
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to advance sacred rights and freedoms. Speaking in this renowned
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chamber of debate and deliberation, I cannot help but think
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of my late mother, Queen Elizabeth, who in nineteen ninety
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one was also afforded this signal honor and similarly spoke
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under the watchful eye of the Statue of Freedom above us.
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Today, I am here, on this great.
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Occasion in the life of our nations, to express the
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highest regard and friendship of the British people to the
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people of the United States. Now, as you may know,
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when I address my own Parliament at Westminster, we still
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follow an age old tradition and take a member of
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Parliament hostage, holding him or her at Buckingham Palace until
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I am safely returned. These days we look after our
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guests rather well, to the point that they often do
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not want to leave. I don't know, mister Speaker, if
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there were any volunteers for that role here today. As
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I look back across the centuries, mister speaker, the emerge
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certain patterns, certain self evident truths from which we can
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learn and draw mutual strength. With a spirit of seventeen
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seventy six in our minds, we can perhaps agree that
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we do not always agree, at least in the first instance. Indeed,
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the very principle on which your Congress was founded, no
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taxation without representation, was at once a fundamental disagreement between us,
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and at the same time a shared democratic value which
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you inherited from us. Ours is a partnership born out
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of dispute, but no less strong for it. So perhaps
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in this example we can discern that our nations are
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in fact instinctively like minded, a product of the common democratic, legal,
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and social traditions in which our governance is rooted to
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this day. Drawing on these values and traditions time and again,
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our two countries have always found ways to come together.
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And by Jove, mister speaker, when we have found that
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way to agree, what great change is brought about, not
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just for the benefit of our peoples, but of all peoples. This,
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I believe is the special ingredient in our relationship. As
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President Trump himself observed during his state visit to Britain
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last autumn. The bond of kinship and identity between America
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and the United Kingdom is priceless and eternal. It is
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irreplaceable and un breakable. Mister speaker, This is by no
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means my first visit to Washington, d c. The capital
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of this great Republic. It is, in fact my twentieth
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visit to the United States, and my first as King
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and head of the Commonwealth. This is a city which
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symbolizes a period in our shared history, or what Charles
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Dickens might have called a tale of two Georges, the
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first President George Washington and my five times great grandfather,
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King George. The third King George, as you know, never
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set foot in America. And please rest assured, the gentlemen,
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I am not here as part of some cunning rear
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guard action. The founding fathers were bold and imaginative rebels
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with a cause two hundred, two hundred and fifty years ago,
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or as we say in the United Kingdom just the
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other day.
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They declared independence.
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By balancing contending forces and drawing strength into diversity. They
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united thirteen disparate colonies to forge a nation on the
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revolutionary idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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They carried with them and carried forward the great inheritance
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of the British Enlightenment, as well as the ideals which
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had an even deeper history in English common law and
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Magna Carta. These routes run deep, and they are still vital.
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Our Declaration of Rights of sixteen eighty nine was not
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only the foundation of our constitutional monarchy, but also provided
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the source of so many of the principles reiterated often
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verbatim in the American Bill of Rights of seventeen ninety one.
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And those routes go even further back in history.
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The US Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna
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Carta is cited in at least one hundred and sixty
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Supreme Court cases in seventeen eighty nine, not least as
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the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject
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to checks and balances.
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This is the reason.
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While there stands a stone by the River Thames at
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Runnymede where Magna Carta was signed in the year twelve fifteen,
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this stone records that an acre of that ancient and
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historic site was given to the United States of America
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by the people of the United Kingdom, to symbolize our
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shared resolve in support of liberty and in memory of
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President John F. Kennedy, Distinguished Members of the one hundred
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and nineteenth Congress, It is here in these very halls
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that this spirit of liberty and the promise of America's
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founders is present in every session and every vote cast,
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not by the will of one, but by the deliberation
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of many, representing the living mosaic of the United States.
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In both of our countries. It is the very fact
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of our vibran and diverse and free societies that gives
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us our collective strength, including to support victims of some
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of the ills that so tragically exist in both our
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societies today. And mister speaker, for many here and for myself,
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the Christian faith is a firm anchor and daily inspiration
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that guides us not only personally, guides us not only personally,
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but together as members of our community. Having devoted a
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large part of my life to interface relationships and greater understanding,
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it is that faith in the triumph of light over darkness,
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which I have found confirmed countless times. Through it, I
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am inspired by the profound respect that develops as people
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of different faiths grow in their understanding of each other.
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It is why, it is my hope, my prayer that
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in these turbulent times, working together and with our international partners,
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we can stem the beating of plowshares into swords. I
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I am mindful that we are still in the season
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of Easter, the season that most strengthens my hope. It
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is why I believe with all my heart that the
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essence of our two nations is a generosity of spirit
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and a duty to foster compassion, to promote peace, to
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deeper mutual understanding, and to value all people, of all
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faiths and of none. The alliance that our two nations
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have built over the centuries, and for which we are
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profoundly grateful to the American people, is truly unique, and
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that alliance is part of what Henry Kissing is described
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as Kennedy's sore and vision of an Atlantic partnership based
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on twin pillars Europe and America. That partnership, I believe,
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mister Speaker, is more important today than it has ever been.
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The first reigning British sovereign to set foot in America
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was my grandfather, King George the sixth he visited in
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nineteen thirty nine with my beloved grandmother, Queenlizabeth, the Queen Mother.
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The forces of fascism.
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In Europe were on the March, and sometime before the
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United States had joined us in the defense of freedom.
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Our shared values prevailed. Today we find ourselves in a
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new era, but those values remain. It is an error
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that is in many ways more volatile and more dangerous
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than the world to which my late mother spoke in
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this chamber in nineteen ninety one. The challenges we face
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are too great for any one nation to bear alone.
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But in this unpredictable environment, our alliance cannot rest on
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past achievements or assume that foundational principles simply endure. As
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my Prime Minister said last month, ours is an indispensable partnership.
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We must not disregard everything that has sustained us for
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the last eighty years. Instead, we must build on it renewal.
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Renewal today starts with security. The United Kingdom recognizes that
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the threats we face demand a transformation in British defense.
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That is why our country, in order to be fit
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for the future, has committed to the biggest sustained increase
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in defense spending since the Cold War, during part of
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which over fifty years ago, I served an immense pride
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in the Royal Navy, following the naval footsteps of my father,
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Prince Philip, Juke of Edinburgh, my grandfather in George the
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sixth my great uncle, Lord mount Batten, and my great
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grandfather in George.
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This year, of course, also.
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Marks the twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven. This
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atrocity was a defining moment for America, and your pain
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and shock were felt around the whole world. During my
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visit to New York, my wife and I will again
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pay our respects to the victims, the families, and the
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bravery shown in the face of terrible loss. We stood
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with you then, and we stand with you now in
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solemn remembrance of a day that she'll never be forgotten.
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In the immediate aftermath of nine to eleven, when NATO
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invoked Article five for the first time and the United
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Nations Security Council was united in the face terror, we
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answered the call together as our people have done so
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for more than a century, shoulder to shoulder through two
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World Wars, the Code War, Afghanistan, and moments that have
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defined our shared security. Today, mister Speaker, that same unyielding
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resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her
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most courageous people. It is needed in order to secure
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a truly just and lasting peace from the depths of
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the Atlantic to the disastrously melting ice caps of the Arctic.
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The commitment and expertise of the United States Armed Forces
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and its allies lie at the heart of native pledged
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to each other's defense, protecting our citizens and interests, keeping
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North Americans and Europeans safe from our common adversaries. Our defense, intelligence,
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and security ties are hardwired together through relationships measure not
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in years, but in decades. Today, thousands of US service personnel,
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defense officials and their families are stationed in the United Kingdom,
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as British personnels serve with equal pride across thirty American states.
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We are building f thirty fives together, and we have
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agreed the most ambitious submarine program in history, ORCUS, and
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we are doing it in partnership with Australia, a country
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which I am also immensely proud to serve as sovereign.
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We do not embark on these remarkable endeavors together out
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of sentiment. We do so because they build greater shared
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resilience for the future, so making our citizens safer for
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generations to come. Our common ideals were not only crucial
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for liberty and equality, they are also the foundation of
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our shared prosperity.
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The rule of.
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Law, the certainty of stable and accessible rules, and independent
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judiciary resolving disputes and delivering impartial justice. These features created
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the conditions for centuries of unmatched economic growth in our
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two countries. This is why our governments are concluding a
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new economic concluding new economic and technology agreements to write
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the next chapter of our joint prosperity and ensure that
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British and American ingenuity continues to lead the world. Our
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nations combining talent and resources in the technologies of tomorrow,
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our new partnerships in nuclenfusion and quantum computing, and in
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AI and drug discovery, holding the promise of saving counter lives.
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More broadly, we celebrate the four hundred and thirty billion
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dollars in annual trade that continues to grow, the one
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point seven trillion dollars in mutual investment that fuels that innovation,
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and the millions of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic,
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supported across both economies. These are strong foundations on which
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to continue to build for generations yet unborn. Our ties
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in education, research and cultural exchange empower citizens and future
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leaders of both countries. The Marshall Scholarship, named after the