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Fifteen minutes before speech: Visit lavatory.
Several days before the speech, I visited Zahra Eshraqi, an official at the Ministry of the Interior, who is married to Khatami's brother Mohammad Reza, the Deputy Speaker of the Majlis; she is also the granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and has inherited some of the old man's fire, if not his politics.
Before his speech, Obama visited a P-Tech Algebra 2 class with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Prior to the speech, Biden visited with a group of students who were conducting an experiment at at the school's biotechnology lab.
Mr. McCain, after delivering a speech and visiting a home for abused children, rode on his bus with Rachel Lee, whose son, Cpl.
In a speech after visiting a helicopter factory near Marseille earlier this month, he announced that the state would keep a closer watch on the strategy of any company in which it had a stake.
The president made the assertions in a speech while visiting Britain, Myanmar's former colonial power, where he met with Prime Minister David Cameron as part of a broader effort to stimulate trade and investment in his country, also known as Burma.
The prince made the speech after visiting an elephant sanctuary in the south western province of Yunnan.
