Times are eastern. Live streams here.
9:15 AM
Obama and Michelle Obama host a breakfast in honor of Gold Star Families.
11:00 AM
Obama lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; Michelle Obama also attends.
11:20 AM
Obama delivers remarks at Arlington National Cemetery; Michelle Obama also attends.
1:50 PM
Obama delivers remarks at the Vietnam War Memorial: Biden, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden attend.
Former republican senator Alan Simpson:
“I guess I’m known as a RINO now, which means a Republican in name only, because, I guess, of social views, perhaps, or common sense would be another one, which seems to escape members of our party,” said Simpson, a co-chair of President Obama’s fiscal commission, on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
“For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you,” he added. “He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.” Read more at TPM
This live stream begins May 28 at 11 am ET. Obama Participates in a Wreath Laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknowns at the Arlington National Cemetery:
Times are eastern.
8:00 AM
Biden hosts a breakfast meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Italy David Thorne at the Naval Observatory.
11:00 AM
Obama and Biden receive the presidential daily briefing.
11:45 AM
Biden and Jill Biden will deliver remarks to surviving families left behind by our nation’s fallen military heroes as they gather for the 18th Annual TAPS National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp in Arlington, Virginia.
Good grief. I heard this on Twitter moments ago. Smaller class sizes are without a doubt beneficial. That is so basic. Romney's against teachers cause he doesn't like teachers' unions:
"All the talk about we need smaller classroom size … that's promoted by the teachers unions to hire more teachers," he said.Yet Romney went to boarding school and his kids went to a private school -- Belmont Hills, where the student teacher ratio is 6 kids to 1 teacher. One of the main reasons parents send their kids to private school is for smaller class sizes. Romney isn't fit to be president. He's out of touch with normal peoples' problems. Why isn't that perfectly clear?
Teachers in Philadelphia were quick to take on Mitt Romney Thursday when he said that small class size was not key to students' success. They quickly told the candidate about their own struggles to teach effectively in packed classrooms.
"I heard your position on class size and testing," said Steven Morris, a teacher at the West Philadelphia Universal Bluford Charter School, which serves students from kindergarten through sixth grade. "But you know, I can't think of any teacher in the whole time I have been teaching, 13 years, who would say that more students [in the classroom] would benefit." Read on
President Barack Obama has nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation’s nuclear power plants.
She is Allison Macfarlane, who served on a presidential commission that studied new strategies to manage nuclear waste. Macfarlane wrote a book in 2006 that raised technical questions about a proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. She is an associate professor at George Mason University. WaPo
Colin Powell doesn't think much of Romney's foreign policy advisors (at about the 20 min mark) They're too far to the right. In foreign policy you need to turn adversaries into friends, Powell says.
You don't go around creating enemies -- something Romney needs to learn, calling Russia a geopolitical threat. Silly Mitt.
I'll say it again. I don't care how well Romney could run the economy -- even though I don't believe presidents run the economy, and I don't believe Romney's economic policies are superior to Obama's -- if Romney can't do foreign policy, he shouldn't be president, especially during these times, when things are changing and progressing so fast. Romney doesn't have the character, aptitude or personality to be chief diplomat.
Times are eastern.
12:10 AM
Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event.
11:30 AM
Obama attends a campaign event at the The Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose, Calif.
1:00 PM
Obama departs San Jose, California en route Newton, Iowa.
4:00 PM
Obama arrives in Des Moines, Iowa.
4:55 PM
Obama tours TPI Composites, a wind manufacturer.
5:15 PM
Obama delivers remarks on urging Congress to act on the 'To Do List.' Live stream
6:55 PM
Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event.
9:20 PM
Obama departs Des Moines, Iowa en route Joint Base Andrews.
11:30 PM
Obama arrives at Joint Base Andrews.
11:45 PM
Obama arrives at the White House.
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The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
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The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Colorado Springs, Colorado
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The President arrives Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Peterson Air Force Base
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The President delivers the commencement address at the United States Air Force Academy
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The President departs Colorado Springs en route Denver, Colorado
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The President arrives Denver, Colorado
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Buckley Air Force Base
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The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
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Hyatt Regency Denver
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The President departs Denver, Colorado en route Mountain View, California
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On Thursday, President Obama will visit TPI Composites, a wind manufacturer in Newton, Iowa where he will urge Congress to act on the “To Do List,” specifically highlighting the need to invest in clean energy by passing legislation that will extend the Production Tax Credit (PTC) to support American jobs and manufacturing in the wind industry alongside an expansion of the 48C Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit that supports American-made clean energy manufacturing.
In an NPR interview today:
Colin Powell also talked about the intelligence disaster that was Bush/Cheney:
"I'm proud of the vote I cast for him in 2008, I think he was absolutely the right choice," Powell says. "I think he's done some very, very positive things to stabilize our financial system, save the auto industry, to bring some regulation into the mix, and we've ended one war — the one in Iraq — we're working on phasing out Afghanistan, and we haven't gotten into any new ones."
But he has plenty of critiques of the Obama administration as well. "We didn't close Guantanamo as I would have hoped, and we still have an unemployment rate that's too high, and the economy has not quite recovered." Powell says. "Whether that's all the fault of the president or not will be up to the people to decide." NPR
Powell has known Romney for many years and says he's a "very distinguished gentleman." Powell is looking forward to hearing what Romney has to say in the coming months.
Powell writes that he now knows that the draft that he and then-CIA Director George Tenet were presented with hadn't actually come through the National Security Council at the White House, but rather from Vice President Dick Cheney's office.
"But I didn't know that at the time," Powell says. "I knew when the president asked me to make the presentation — I knew that the NSC was supposed to have been working on it, and therefore I would get something that was a near-finished document." NPR
Romney's riches include $18 million in properties. His biggest chunk of wealth is in debt securities and Bain. But there's cars and horses and stocks...
Obama's returning from the NATO and G8 summits.
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The President arrives Joint Base Andrews
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The President arrives the White House
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