President Barack Obama is set to deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday, and it is likely he will look towards hoped-for successor Hillary Clinton to continue his legacy.

According to CNN, Obama administration aides say the president will argue that the country's destiny will depend on the next commander in chief honoring his progress made on the forefronts of such issues as health care reform, climate change and wars waged in the Middle East.

The best person for that job, Obama believes according to sources close to him, is Hillary Clinton.

"I think Barack Obama believes that it is incredibly important that Hillary Clinton succeeds him," said a former aide to the president who still maintains White House connections. "The only way that we have an economy where people aren't losing their health care is if Hillary Clinton becomes president."

The president also has met with fellow Democratic runner Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator is surging in the polls in vital states such as New Hampshire and Iowa, and will likely prove a major threat to Clinton securing the Democratic nomination.

Vice President Joe Biden, who surprisingly decided to forego entering the presidential race, seemed to support Sanders over Clinton in a recent interview with CNN.

"Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real. And he has credibility on it," said Biden, adding that it was "relatively new" for Clinton to discuss issues of social and economic inequality that characterize Sanders' campaign.

Despite Obama's support for Clinton, it's clear that president does not intend to hand over the reigns just yet. There are still many things Obama wants to accomplish in his last year.

"I want us to be able, when we walk out this door, to say, 'We couldn't think of anything else that we didn't try to do ... that we weren't timid or got tired or somehow thinking about the next thing because there is no next thing,'" Obame said in a pre-State of the Union video on Monday.

One regret the president said he has is that he was not able to untie Washington the way he talked about in his first campaign.

"Part of what I want to do in this last address is to remind people, you know what, we've got a lot of good things going for us and if we can get our politics right, it turns out that we're not as divided on the ideological spectrum as people make us out to be," said Obama during an interview with NBC's "Today."

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