President George W. Bush is scheduled to address the Pennsylvania FFA convention Tuesday, June 14, at Eisenhower Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus, the White House announced today. The president accepted an invitation from the FFA to speak at the meeting, and will focus his remarks on his proposals to reform Social Security. Bush is scheduled to fly back to Washington after his remarks to the group.
This year's 2005 Pennsylvania FFA Summer Convention and Activities Week continues more than 20 years of sponsoring the event at University Park, and supports a long history between Pennsylvania FFA and the Agricultural and Extension Education Department in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
This is the fourth presidential visit by a sitting president to a Penn State campus in the past 10 years, and the second time that Bush has visited a Penn State campus. He visited Penn State Delaware County on April 2, 2002. For information about other presidential visits to Penn State, check http://live.psu.edu/story/12363 online.