This annual event always gives Obama a chance to make jokes. He didn’t disappoint this year either.

“Early in Oprah Winfrey’s career her bosses told her she should change her name to Susie,” President Obama quipped in introducing Winfrey. “I have to pause here to say I got the same advice.” He then assured the crowd gathered that his advice was merely to change his name, although “not to Susie.”

It’s a shame he couldn’t honor Johnny Cash’s memory by breaking into “A Boy Named Sue.”

He also honored Sally Ride, Bill Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Ernie Banks, Bayard Rustin, Dan Inouye of Hawai’i, Ben Bradlee and Loretta Lynn, among others.

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