Portions of the State of the Union speech draft came to the CIA for comment shortly before the speech was given.
Two out of three Americans who watched the speech said they favor Obama's health care plans -- a 14-point gain from before the speech -- while 29 percent oppose the president's proposals, according to the pollsters.
Before the speech, more than half of Americans said he had not made his case yet.
Before the speech, CNN Senior White House Correspondent John King discussed the president's agenda.
Ms McBride was speaking before the speech and throughout the address alternated between clapping and frowning.
Ten minutes before the speech an assistant flattened all the pages on the lectern, according to Tedlow's biography.
Grove realized shortly before a speech that he would be unable to grasp the pages and turn them.
Reza Aslan, the best-selling Iranian-American author of "No God But God, " was also a doubter before the speech.
But the most important moment of that stop in the tour came a few hours before the speech.
Not one of the opening speakers mentioned Clinton, and many of them left during or just before her speech.
And there are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a speech before Congress, a joint session speech.
Before his speech, he grabbed an oatmeal cookie and took a five-minute nap.
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Reagan didn't get his economic agenda passed until summer 1981, a senior White House official noted before the speech Tuesday.
Before the speech, a cohort of financiers from bulge-bracket banks, hedge funds, and NYC city government chatted amongst each other.
Before the speech, the president met with victims' families and first responders in six classrooms set aside in Newtown High School.
Before his speech, Mr. Obama met with five returning soldiers, and with the family of a young infantryman who died Nov. 14.
To add continental flavour they served croissants before the speech started, but the coffee was more Manhattan milky than left bank Parisian.
Having a few hours to kill before my speech, I head in.
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Before the speech, she said it's "unlikely" she will change her mind.
Before his speech from the show grandstand, he was introduced to a number of officials, among them was Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones.
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But other U.S. officials said the White House had a report from a former U.S. ambassador a year before the speech that the intelligence was bogus.
Philadelphia (CNN) -- Darryl Williams and Benjamin Kline were shivering before the speech even started, their black umbrella no match for the steady rain and brisk Philadelphia wind.
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This time around, though, markets have recovered before the speech.
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In the weeks before his speech, Clinton has been laying out a laundry list of policy proposals of policies that the president often says can be done due to the nation's booming economy.
But I do not believe that anyone out there in the country thinks that the answer to getting Washington out of gridlock is having another round before this speech of meetings in the Cabinet Room.
Hours before the speech, Republican leaders promised to release in March a report, dubbed the "Growth and Opportunity Project, " outlining recommendations on party rules and messaging designed to appeal to a rapidly changing American electorate.
And obviously many administration officials, including the Vice President, General Jones, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others will also make consultation calls to our allies over the course of the next many hours before the speech.
Therefore the great majority had been sampled before Gordon Brown's speech and all of them before Tony Blair's.
Netanyahu is reportedly considering unveiling his new diplomatic initiative in a speech before Congress in May.
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