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updated 3:40 p.m. ET March 26, 2007

WASHINGTON - President Bush will give three commencement addresses this year, including a speech in the congressional district of one of his fiercest war critics.

The White House announced Monday that Bush will speak on April 28 on the Kendall Campus of Miami Dade College in Miami, Fla.

His next address will be on May 11 at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. The president of the college, Jim Towey, is the former director of Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

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The college is in the district represented by Rep. John Murtha, who has helped lead Democratic opposition to Bush's war strategy in Iraq.

Bush will also speak on May 23 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.