How much more does the President expect the states to bear?

As a result, the President can expect a more skeptical response than that given any of his five previous speeches.

The President should expect questions about how he governs.

But the new President can also expect his allies to be somewhat less pliant than in the past.

"What does the President expect us to do that we're not doing already?"

Whatever the President expects from his race initiative, he is not likely to find it via the tube.

Still, how could the President really have expected much less opposition, given what he did not do?

It was exactly what the President had expected to hear.

I do not think that he or the President expected it to work, but we were morally obligated to try.

The President obviously expected him to send it in the exact form to which they'd both finally agreed.