There will be live coverage and analysis of the speech later today on NPR News.
And yet such promising moments were followed by this, the ending of the speech.
We have not shared a draft of the speech with anyone outside of the administration.
And some Democrats are being very vocal about it just ahead of the speech.
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Now, I was asked about will that be part of the speech next week.
The text here is one of many versions of the speech Reagan delivered over the years.
Actually he said near the end of the speech that the reforms "will pass".
Analysts took away different views of the speech, depending on their points of view.
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The third-term mayor then quickly offered his frank assessment of the speech, blasting his writers with relish.
The first 10 minutes of the speech would have been brilliant enough for most speakers to retire on.
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This morning's headlines and the reaction to them led to that part of the speech being re-written.
As we can all see, you are a great defender of the speech of others and so acutely tolerant.
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Mr Mitchell said it would be "quite wrong" to assume the contents of the speech, scheduled for 9 May.
Footage of the speech at the university surfaced a few years ago when Prof Brian Ward discovered the tape.
The sentence ends with a glimmer of the speech that could have been.
As he mentioned, and one of the major points of the speech is, this is not a theoretical exercise.
At the time of the speech he was serving as co-chairman of Citigroup.
Off the back of the speech, Ms Gillard enjoyed a brief revival, but the Labor party remains intensely unpopular.
Then what may be the glaring hole at the heart of the speech.
This part of the speech was a mosaic of circumstantial material, rather than an Adlai Stevenson-like blaze of proof.
But I can tell you that no one outside of this administration has been shown a draft of the speech.
Michelle was in the room, and she was kind of handling both him as well as some of the speech.
But these conservative-pleasing bits of the speech represented a victory for the forces of the status quo rather than radicalism.
That is the pledge at the heart of the speech on Europe which David Cameron has so long agonised over.
There was a little less enthusiasm for the more esoteric section of the speech that dealt with his core theme: aspiration.
"Obviously the bulk of the speech was devoted to Iraq, and unfortunately there we saw more of the same, " Obama said.
You can probably tell from those numbers that the key elements of the speech did not involve taxes or tax reform.
He also spoke to Gen McChrystal and other top commanders, and will brief congressional leaders on Tuesday ahead of the speech.
No one can say the rest of the speech won't eventually emerge, though who knows where or when (see box).
Mr Cameron struck a self-consciously upbeat tone during much of the speech as he invoked what he called "the British spirit".
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