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Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President visited Fort Bliss two years after he marked the end of major combat operations in Iraq and visited with victims of Hurricane Isaac.

As President Obama gears up to officially accept his presidential nomination at the 46th Democratic National Convention, he will kick-off the "Road to Charlotte" tour with grassroots events in Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina On the "Road to Charlotte" tour, the President will continue to lay out what's at stake for the middle class in this election -- the choice between continuing to move forward to an economy built to last that's grounded in a strong middle class, and going back to the same "top-down" economic policies of the last decade that crashed our economy and punished the middle class.

On the two-year anniversary of the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the President speak to troops at Fort Bliss, and discusses that part of ending wars responsibly demands standing by those who have served. August 31, 2012.

President Obama marks the second anniversary of the end of major combat in Iraq, by thanking our servicemen and women for the outstanding work they did.

Veterans share why they support President Obama and what the president has done to support Veterans and Military Families.

Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reflects upon the anniversary of the end of the combat mission in Iraq and talks about welcoming our troops home and the administration's commitment to supporting our troops as they transition back to civilian life.

Since day one, President Obama has made it a priority to keep the sacred trust we hold with those who wear the uniform of the United States and their families.

 President Obama: "The most humbling part of my job is serving is serving as Commander in Chief of the world's finest military. And there's nothing I take more seriously than my responsibility to those who sacrifice their own safety to defend ours. That's why Michelle and I have made supporting veterans and military families a top priority from the start."

A partial transcript of video from Late Night with David Letterman. Brian Williams and David Letterman are discussing President Obama and the raid that took-out Usama bin Laden:

Letterman: “The day after the 9/11 attacks, the number 1 priority in America, if not the world, was, ‘We gotta get bin Laden, we gotta get bin Laden.’”

Williams: “Yeah”

Letterman: “So, uh, eight years go by, we still haven’t got bin Laden. Uh, George W. Bush at one point said, well, he doesn’t really think too much about bin Laden. In the interim we invaded Afghanistan, then we invaded Iraq because Cheney wanted to help out his buddies at Brown & Root and, uh, Halliburton,”