Although conservatives and Bush campaign officials have denied seeking to use state ballot initiatives that oppose same-sex marriage as a tool to bring out conservative voters, the agenda includes a speech on "Using Conservative Issues in Swing States," said Phil Burress, leader of an initiative drive in Ohio, a battleground state.
"The way he chooses his words about North Korea, about Indonesia, will be very important because it will be amplified this week," said one senior Southeast Asian diplomat involved in helping plan the trip, which includes a speech on Saturday to the Philippine Congress.
Mr. Romney is scheduled to hold three events in Illinois on Monday, including a speech on what his campaign said would be "economic freedom" in Chicago.
Mr. Gingrich is aggressively courting Hispanic voters in Florida and he has scheduled several events before the primary on Jan . 31focused on Hispanic issues, including a speech on Latin American policy.
A program at 1 p.m. will include a speech on temperance, a reading from the Declaration of Independence, a singalong with toasts to the Republic and a dramatic vignette highlighting women's rights.
The article, translated here by Google, includes the English-language passages said to have been cribbed from at least six other sources, including a speech on land reform and a 2007 college paper on political science pulled off of the Internet.
In the past five years, the Vatican's relationship with other faiths has been severely undermined following a series of gaffes by the current pontiff, including a speech on the Prophet Muhammad that upset Muslims and the reintegration of an excommunicated Holocaust-denying bishop that severely undermined Catholic-Jewish relations.
The order came amid a growing backlash against Mr. Karzai's public excoriation of the United States, including a speech on Tuesday in which he suggested that the government might unilaterally act to ensure control of the Bagram Prison if the United States delayed its handover.
But the suit came after steps by Mr. Obama in an effort to frame the immigration debate in terms that will favor Democrats in advance of midterm elections in November, including a speech on Thursday when he restated his commitment to overhaul legislation that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
Citing past disclosures about the drones program, including a speech on national security Obama delivered earlier this year, the government contended that it had already provided certain information about the drones program, but it "remains the case that no authorized Executive Branch official has disclosed the precise nature of the CIA's involvement in the use of targeted lethal force".
Mr. Obama's three-day trip to Latin America is to include a speech to Mexican college students on Friday before meetings with Central American leaders in Costa Rica later in the day and on Saturday.
