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Tickets, Schedule Released for Obama's Iowa State Visit
Ticketing resumes 10 a.m. Monday. Obama's two-day college tour in Iowa, Colorado and Virginia starts Tuesday in Ames.

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Ticketing resumes 10 a.m. Monday. Obama's two-day college tour in Iowa, Colorado and Virginia starts Tuesday in Ames.

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President Barack Obama spoke at the Herman Park Pavilion on Monday. It was his second planned public stop in a three-day bus tour of Iowa.