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For about an hour, it was a clever, if not particularly memorable, speech. Embarking on his fifth State of the Union address, with the lowest approval ratings (forty-three per cent, according to Gallup) of any second-term Oval Office occupant at this point in a Presidency since Richard Nixon, President Obama eschewed the grand pledges that he had made last year to move forward with gun-control legislation, immigration reform, climate-change policy, and tax reform. This year, the first three of those topics got one paragraph each—and tax reform was hardly mentioned. 
  
 Instead, the President talked about how “inequality has deepened” and “upward mobility has stalled.” He put forth a series of modest proposals designed to provide “ladders of opportunity into the middle class,” such as raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers. And he expressed his determination to enact some reforms without congressional approval, saying, “America does not stand still, and neither will I.” 
  
 To that point, it was pretty much what the advance leaks had indicated: a determined rearguard action from a President who knows that he is down, and who needs a political strategy that can take him and his party through an election year, until, hopefully, a resurgent economy rescues them both. Prone to occasional lapses into passivity and fatalism, here he was sharp, feisty, and funny. This was the Obama of the second 2012 Presidential debate, not the first one. 
  
 He castigated the Republicans for depriving “hardworking, responsible Americans” of the chance to receive extended unemployment benefits while looking for a new job. To support his case, he pointed to one such woman, Misty DeMars, who was conveniently sitting in the gallery. DeMars is a college-educated mother of two who lost her job last year. Obama delivered a strong, and much needed, defense of the Affordable Care Act, invoking another White House invitee, Amanda Shelley, who signed up for her new health coverage on January 1st, got sick two days later, and needed emergency surgery on January 3rd. Obama even elicited a quick thumbs-up from John Boehner by pointing out how “the son of a barkeeper is the Speaker of the House.” (It is not to be doubted that some Tea Party members in Ohio are already planning a primary challenge.) 
  
 But it was toward the end of the speech, when Obama made the customary pivot to foreign affairs and national-security issues, that the real drama occurred. A tipoff had come from an article at the Daily Beast on Tuesday, which was written by Jon Favreau, the speechwriter who worked on Obama’s previous State of the Union addresses. It explained how much time and effort that the President’s staff would put into finding “ordinary Americans whose lives touch us in extraordinary ways.” Favreau went on: “This is President Obama’s favorite part, too—particularly the story that’s often told to conclude the speech. My old boss is a sucker for good endings, and he would send us far and wide to find just the right anecdote.” 
  
 The subject of this year’s concluding story was Army Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg, a Ranger who first met the President in 2009, at Omaha Beach, on the sixty-fifth anniversary of D Day. In Obama’s telling, Remsburg helped walk him through the program, joked around, took photographs, and left the impression that he was “a strong, impressive young man, with an easy manner, sharp as a tack.” Just a few months later, the President went on, “on his tenth deployment, Cory was nearly killed by a massive roadside bomb in Afghanistan. His comrades found him in a canal, face down, underwater, shrapnel in his brain.” 
  
 Even through the television screen, you could almost hear the nervous intake of breath inside the packed chamber. Remsburg was sitting in the gallery too, of course, wearing his full ceremonial uniform, squeezed between his gray-haired father, Craig, and Michelle Obama. As the President explained what Remsburg had subsequently been through—a coma, ten surgeries, the loss of his voice, blindness in one eye, the loss of movement, and “years of gruelling rehab” to regain some of his faculties—the wounded soldier looked gamely ahead, the rigors of his experience plainly visible on his face and head. And after Obama said, “Cory is here tonight…. Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg never gives up, and he does not quit,” Remsburg pulled himself to his feet, with a bit of assistance from his dad, and acknowledged the thunderous applause that went on for minutes, and was quite unlike anything that had been heard previously. 
  
 The President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Remsburg’s ultimate commanding officers—the men who had overseen his deployment in Afghanistan—were on their feet, staring up at him and applauding. So were the five Supreme Court Justices who showed up. And so were the members of the Cabinet, White House staff members, and, of course, the assembled senators and congressmen. Remsburg waved his one good arm, tried his best to smile, and got a quick rub on the back from the First Lady. Truly, it was hard to watch. But it was even harder to look away. 
  
 What did it all signify? 
  
 On one level, of course, it was a political ploy—a fiendishly effective way to leave us with something else to talk about than an embattled President defending his policies and seeking to turn the conversation from whether he’s a lame duck. But it was also something bigger and more justifiable. Obama’s speechwriters and spinmeisters didn’t pull Remsburg’s name from a hat. A 2013 piece in the Times reported that the President had met him twice since the D Day celebrations—once at a military hospital near Washington and then at a high school in Phoenix. This was their fourth encounter. 
  
 Ever since he ran for President, in 2008, Obama’s underlying message has been that too much of what happens in Washington is an insiders’ game that ignores, and often tramples upon, the wishes and interests of ordinary Americans. By inviting Remsburg—and DeMars and Shelley, too—Obama was taking part in what’s now a traditional ritual for speech-givers. But he was also trying to bridge the gaping chasm between politics and political decision-making as experienced by its practitioners in the nation’s capital and by the grunts out there in the factories, offices, and Army battalions. 
  
 He was also invoking the concept of public service, which, in Washington these days, is routinely subjugated to partisan advantage. And, finally, he was saying that we can do better, and we know we can—just look at this young man. 
  
 “None of it is easy,” Obama said. “But if we work together; if we summon what is best in us, the way Cory summoned what is best in him, with our feet planted firmly in today but our eyes cast towards tomorrow, I know it’s within our reach.” In a bitterly divided chamber, and a bitterly divided country, it was a fanciful vision to end the speech with. For a moment, though, you got the sense that even the President’s foes gathered before him couldn’t have disagreed with his sentiments. 
  
 Read the rest of our State of the Union coverage: Jeff Shesol on executive orders, Amy Davidson on Cory Remsburg and the meaning of war, Evan Ratliff on the many scandals of Michael Grimm, and a live chat about the speech with Davidson, Steve Coll, Rebecca Mead, and Evan Osnos. 
  
 Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty. ||||| Win McNamee / Getty Images First Lady Michelle Obama applauds as Army Sergeant 1st Class Cory Remsburg is acknowledged by President Obama during the State of the Union address Tuesday night. 
  
 Army Sergeant 1st Class Cory Remsburg couldn’t be blamed Tuesday night if the ear-splitting, two-minute standing ovation he received near the end of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address brought back memories of the day a blast changed his life near Kandahar more than four years ago. 
  
 That was the day the now 30-year-old Army Ranger ended up floating in an Afghan canal—Oct. 1, 2009—after a roadside bomb detonated nearby with an ear-shattering explosion, sending shrapnel into his brain and right eye, and putting him into a three-month coma. 
  
 Sergeant 1st Class Remsburg, who has been awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, was a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama at the Capitol. As Obama detailed Remsburg’s progress, Congress—and the Joint Chiefs of Staff—roared their approval. 
  
 The commander-in-chief and Sergeant 1st Class Remsburg go way back, at least as far as presidents and grunts can go. They first met on June 6, 2009, in Normandy, during the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. “He was a strong, impressive young man, had an easy manner,” Obama told Congress, and the nation, on Tuesday night. “He was sharp as a tack.” That was the first of their three get-togethers before Tuesday. 
  
 “A few months later, on his 10th deployment, Cory was nearly killed by a massive roadside bomb in Afghanistan,” Obama said. “The next time I met him, in the hospital, he couldn’t speak; he could barely move. Over the years, he’s endured dozens of surgeries and procedures, hours of grueling rehab every day.” 
  
 After more than two years in hospitals and rehab centers, Sergeant 1st Class Remsburg returned home to Phoenix, where he continues to undergo six hours of occupational, physical and speech therapy daily. “My fellow Americans,” Obama said as he wrapped up his speech, “men and women like Cory remind us that America has never come easy.” 
  
 Sgt. 1st Class Remsburg joined the Army on his 18th birthday, after his father, Craig—a retired Air Force Reserve firefighter—refused to sign the papers for him to join on his own at age 17. Now his father, sitting next to him Tuesday night, and stepmother, Annie, are Remsburg’s caretakers, as he continues his long march, back to being all that he can be. ||||| Cory Remsburg stole the show at Tuesday’s State of the Union address. 
  
 President Obama’s tribute to the Army Ranger who was severely wounded on his 10th deployment to Afghanistan brought the entire House chamber to its feet, offering a bipartisan ovation far longer and stronger than for any of the president’s proposals. 
  
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 Remsburg, in fact, commanded the room 30 minutes before Obama even arrived. 
  
 Lawmakers chatting on the House floor and awaiting the arrival of dignitaries stopped to applaud as the uniformed Remsburg, blind in one eye and with only partial use of his left side, struggled down a handful of steep steps to his seat in the front row of the House gallery in first lady Michelle Obama’s box. 
  
 Few in the chamber knew exactly for whom they were applauding, but they would learn Remsburg’s wrenching story more than an hour later from Obama. 
  
 The president first met Remsburg on the 65th anniversary of the World War II invasion of Normandy. Four months later, a roadside bomb in Kandahar left him in a coma for three months, and when Obama first visited him in the hospital, he “couldn’t speak [and] could barely move.” 
  
 After dozens of surgeries and years of rehabilitation, he can speak and walk again. 
  
 “Like the Army he loves, like the America he serves, Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg never gives up, and he does not quit,” Obama said, as Republicans, Democrats and even the stoic justices of the Supreme Court rose from their seats. 
  
 He quoted Remsburg as saying that, while his recovery has been difficult, “nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.” 
  
 The president highlighted Remsburg’s story as a call for national perseverance, telling a polarized Congress that “men and women like Cory remind us that America has never come easy.” 
  
 It was a fitting theme, as Obama spoke to a Congress that has often shunned his agenda in recent years. With even lower expectations for action in an election year, the president offered perhaps the most modest legislative program of his presidency. 
  
 While Democrats stood again and again as the president defended his healthcare law, pushed for an increase in the minimum wage and new spending in education and infrastructure, the most Obama could extract from Republicans was polite applause for his calls for corporate tax reform, an immigration overhaul and fast-track trade authority. 
  
 Before the speech, several Republicans made no effort to hide that they were more excited at the chance to meet “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson — a guest of Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) — than they were to hear another speech from a president they have mostly tuned out. 
  
 Other than Remsburg, lawmakers saved their biggest ovation for one of their own, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), after Obama lauded “the son of a barkeeper” as a testament to the American Dream. 
  
 When Obama turned to face him, a beet-red Boehner flashed a thumbs-up and, looking like he was about to cry, stood to receive the applause. Republicans got to their feet more slowly when the president offered a tribute to his single mother in the next line of the speech. 
  
 A pop culture reference to the hit show “Mad Men” in a call to modernize workplace rights for women drew laughter and applause from Democrats, and chants of “USA! USA!” rang out when Obama predicted the U.S. Olympic team would bring home the gold — and demonstrate its support for gay rights — in next month’s games in Sochi, Russia. 
  
 But the speech, and the evening, belonged to the Purple Heart recipient in the first lady’s box. 
  
 Minutes after the applause for Obama died down, and the president made his way out of the chamber, the remaining members and guests began to clap again and look to the gallery. With help from his father, Remsburg was making his way back up the steps. |||||
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By far the longest standing ovation in last night's State of the Union address belonged not to President Obama but to Army Ranger Cory Remsburg. In fact, Remsburg couldn't be blamed "if the ear-splitting, two-minute standing ovation he received ... brought back memories of the day a blast changed his life near Kandahar more than four years ago," writes Mark Thompson at Time. As Obama recounted, Remsburg was nearly killed in Afghanistan on his 10th deployment. After a roadside bombing, "his comrades found him in a canal, face down, underwater, shrapnel in his brain." Remsburg, now 30, spent three months in a coma, lost his vision in one eye, and continues grueling rehab daily back home in Phoenix under the care of his parents. (He enlisted at age 18, a year after his dad wouldn't give him permission to do so at 17.) Obama spoke of meeting Remsburg before the accident—"sharp as a tack"—and twice since, which is pretty rare as these things go. "Men and women like Cory remind us that America has never come easy," said the president. When he finished, "the speech, and the evening, belonged to the Purple Heart recipient," writes Russell Berman at the Hill. Sure, it was a "political ploy" to some extent, writes John Cassidy at the New Yorker, "but it was also something bigger and more justifiable." Obama invoked public service and the idea that all of us can do better. "In a bitterly divided chamber, and a bitterly divided country, it was a fanciful vision to end the speech with," he writes. "For a moment, though, you got the sense that even the president's foes gathered before him couldn't have disagreed with his sentiments."