It attempted to be not a description of the ideal, but rather one of the doable. As one senior White House official put it a few hours before the speech: “There is a path to get this done. … The issues that separate us are not insuperable.”
The White House has just put out a list of who will be sitting in the best seats in the House (Chamber) tonight. There are a few famous faces (Vicki Kennedy’s appearance will be especially poignant), and some others whose names and stories you probably don’t know, but should:
