From Michigan Daily:
President Barack Obama will deliver the spring 2010 commencement address at the University of Michigan, President Mary Sue Coleman announced today.
President Obama will receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree.
"President Obama has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of many students with his inspiring words of hope and change. We are honored to welcome a leader of his distinction and look forward to his message," Coleman said. "We could not be happier for the graduates who will celebrate their academic achievements with the president of the United States."
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. May 1 in Michigan Stadium. The university awards degrees to about 3,500 undergraduate students at spring commencement, before an audience of more than 40,000. Ticket information will be released at a later date.
In Ann Arbor,
Presidential candidate JFK proposed the Peace Corp;
President LBJ made the first pledge to the "Great Society";
What will Obama deliver???
Looking forward to this PRESIDENTIAL visit!!!!!!
Strangely enough, it will only the fourth time in US history that a sitting president visits the University of Michigan.
The previous three were Bush I in May 1991, (our very own) Gerald Ford in September 1976, and the most famous one, LBJ in May 1964.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640522.asp
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