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The network morning shows on Friday all praised President Obama’s “historic visit” to Hiroshima, Japan – site of the first nuclear bombing – and him using the occasion to push his foreign policy agenda.
Leading off NBC’s Today, announced: “Historic visit. President Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. President to travel to Hiroshima, site of the devastating atomic bombing.” In the report that followed, correspondent Ron Allen declared: “Today, more than anything, President Obama came here to say that nuclear weapons capable of such unspeakable devastation never should be used again.”