President Joe Biden served up a ringing defense of the last four years of American foreign policy in a speech yesterday that served as the introduction to his long goodbye, a series of addresses extolling the good in a record ultimately rejected by the voters.

The nearly 30-minute speech touched on dozens of issues on nearly every continent, from fraying alliances Biden said he encountered after he took office to recent Israel-Hamas cea

Outgoing President Joe Biden sought to burnish his foreign policy record on Monday and said U.S. adversaries are weaker than when he took office four years ago despite global crises that remain unresolved.