An Oval Office Address is a speech made from the Oval Office in the White House by the President of the United States.[1] It is sometimes considered the most solemn setting for an address made by the President, often delivered on or during an occasion of national disaster.[1]
Some previous addresses include John F. Kennedy's 1962 news of the Cuban Missile Crisis,[2] Jimmy Carter's 1979 "Malaise Speech",[3] Ronald Reagan's speech following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986,[4] George W. Bush's Address to the Nation on the evening of the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks[5] and Barack Obama's June 2010 speech addressing the issue of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[6]