The president will make a speech at the London School of Economics entitled 'Of public intellectuals, universities and a democratic crisis'.

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Then President Bush came to Virginia to make a speech.

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The US president has gone to Kansas to make a big economic speech, saying this is a make or break moment for the American middle class and that the ongoing debate about tax is "the defining issue of our time".

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Aides familiar with late drafts of the president's speech also said Bush will make a spirited defense of his administration's enforcement efforts -- an bid to counter Democratic efforts to paint the White House as too cozy with big business and, more specifically, to defuse calls for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt to resign.

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We talked a little bit this morning about additional calls that the President will make between this afternoon and the time of the speech.

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