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Strengthening Our Health Care Workforce June 16, 2010

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Barack Obama gives due recognition to nurses for being excellent frontliners in the healthcare system and for being excellent healthcare professionals to the American people.

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Hello, everybody! All right, everybody have a seat. I got a lot to say here. (Laughter) First of all, I want to just thank Becky Patton for the extraordinary work that she has done on behalf of nurses, on behalf of patients, on behalf of the country. Thank you so much. We are proud of everything that she's done. (Applause) And her mom is in the house - so, thanks, Mom. (Applause) Good job. Good job with Becky.

I want to thank Marla Weston, the CEO of the American Nurses Association. And I also want to acknowledge the presence here of Dr. Mary Wakefield, who is our - (applause) - for those of you who are not familiar, she is the administrator of HRSA and our highest-ranking nurse in the administration - (applause) - and does absolutely great work.

Now, I want to tell you, it is an honor to speak to the ANA, representing more than 3 million registered nurses across the country. Part of the reason I'm here is because I promised I was going to come, and I told to Becky that I don't break promises to nurses because you never know when I'm going to need a shot. (Laughter) And I don't want them working that needle all kind of -

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