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Obama's college tour

Print | Comments () Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor March 20, 2009 04:24 PM

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The White House announced today which college graduates President Obama will try to inspire at their commencements.

Obama plans to speak at Arizona State University on May 13, the University of Notre Dame on May 17, and the United States Naval Academy on May 22.

Last May at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Obama urged students to consider public service, recalling his own decision to work for a small group of churches as a neighborhood organizer in Chicago for "$12,000 a year plus $2,000 for an old, beat-up car," and how the experience gave him purpose and direction.

He stepped in for an ailing Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who was the scheduled speaker, and paid tribute to the man he called "one of my personal heroes and a hero to his country."

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