CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / MERCED
First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement speech at UC Merced, the White House announced Friday.
The UC campus opened in 2005, so Obama will be addressing the first full senior class when she speaks May 16.
The graduation speech is one of two Obama is scheduled to deliver this spring. The other is at a Washington, D.C., charter high school.
-- Seema Mehta
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