POLITICO — President Barack Obama sought Friday to reassure the nation after a “tough week” that included the Boston Marathon bombings, a fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas and a manhunt for the terrorism suspect that paralyzed Massachusetts and transfixed the nation for almost 24 hours.
“All in all, this has been a tough week, but we’ve seen the character of our country once more,” Obama said late Friday at the White House. “And as president, I’m confident that we have the courage and the resilience and the spirit to overcome these challenges and to go forward as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
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Obama’s remarks came less than 90 minutes after Boston suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was apprehended in Watertown, Mass., after a long manhunt that ended with him hiding out in a boat parked in a backyard. Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a firefight early Friday as the brothers attempted to escape police.
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