President Obama Appears on 'Tonight Show' Again
Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” will host President Barack Obama next week during his visit to the West Coast.
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer posted on Twitter that Obama would talk with Leno Tuesday. This will mark his fourth appearance on “The Today Show,” after being on the show twice as a presidential candidate, as well as in March 2009, shortly after he took office.
Obama is the first president to ever be on the show, according to NBC.
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The president has been on the American Jobs Act bus tour in order to raise money for his re-election as well as trying gain more support for his jobs bill.
Obama has just wrapped up his tour of North Carolina and Virginia, stopping in Chesterfield Wednesday to discuss a tax credit for hiring veterans.
The controversy over his jobs bill continues; the president is now pushing to get his $447 billion bill passed through a divided Congress in smaller packages. He now wants Congress to pass a $35 billion package to help local and state governments hire more teachers, firefighters, and police officers.
Claiming that Americans broadly support the bill, Obama says it is up to Republicans now.
“If they vote against these proposals, if they do not take steps that we know will put people back to work right now, they’re not going to have to answer to me, they’re going to have to answer to you,” said President Obama.
Thursday afternoon, the president will welcome 13 recipients of the 2011 Presidential Citizens Medal to the White House, and his remarks in the East Room are open to the press. Later, Obama will host Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway, which remains a close NATO ally to the U.S., in the Oval Office.
