The U.S.Embassy in Mauritania invited people to watch President Obama's speech live in an embassy conference room.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Among those invited by the president to hear the speech in person were a number of Americans who the White House said would benefit from Democratic-sponsored reform , including persons struggling to pay medical bills or denied coverage under the current insurance system.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Unlike his previous two speeches -- at the U.S. Naval Academy and before the Council on Foreign Relations -- some members of the audience were not supportive of Bush's policies, as suggested by the tone of questions the president unexpectedly invited after his speech.

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Obama will arrive in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday and give a speech to invited guests in downtown Rio.

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In April 2011, he invited GOP leaders to a speech that they expected to be conciliatory.

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