Mr. Clinton is off on Saturday for a commencement address in Minnesota.
Common sense, or common penny-pinching, put 11 members of the press corps on a bus to a commencement speech delivered by Mr. Obama in southern Virginia early this month.
Ben S. Bernanke is, of course, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, but he always seems most comfortable as an educator, a role he slips into for a commencement address on Saturday at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
But as I'm planning to elaborate on in a commencement speech I'll be giving later this year, I finally see an end to that antiquated career path (find a big company, get your foot in the door, play by the rules, work long and hard, climb patiently up the ladders, and be sure and make nice with all the gatekeepers).
"I'm just going to be giving an energy speech in Houston on Friday and a commencement speech in Oklahoma Friday night," he said, describing his national campaign-style travel plans.
Administration officials said that President Clinton would describe the plan on Sunday at a commencement address at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and that it was strongly endorsed by Vice President Al Gore.
And on May 19, in a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bloomberg said: You're getting to participate in what may go down as one of the most important elections in American history, so important that some people were encouraging me to get into it.
"My daughter heard that I'd said that, and she called and she said, 'Mom, I do work hard and my friends work hard,' " Mrs. Clinton said on Sunday in a commencement address at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University.
— For the first time as president, Barack Obama on Sunday delivered a commencement address to a historically black college, Hampton University, telling graduates that they have "a separate responsibility" to become mentors to other young African-Americans to help close a persistent gap in educational achievement.
