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April 10, 2008
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Obama speaks at Strath Haven HS; Swat originally a possibility
On Wednesday, April 2, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke at a rally held in the gymnasium of Strath Haven High School in nearby Wallingford, Pa. The event took place on the last day of Obama’s six-day bus tour of Pennsylvania. According to Vice President Maurice Eldridge ’61, the Obama campaign had considered Swarthmore College as a possible venue for the event.
Eldridge said that the college was contacted less than a week before the event occurred. ‘’[The campaign] wanted…
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