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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(BERLIN,GERMANY) UPDATE, 1:30pm ET Barack Obama spent the morning working in his room at Berlin's Adelon Hotel after the campaign canceled a planned visit to Ramstein Airbase and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Late last night, the campaign canceled the planned troop visit because they said they did not want to politicize the meeting.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told CBS News today, "The senator is more than welcome to visit any military facility, he always has been and always will be, as a senator."

"The Pentagon was willing to accomodate the fact they were on a campaign trip," Morrell added, saying that the Pentagon would have kept the campaign staff and traveling press outside while Obama was inside visiting the troops.

"It was their decision to cancel the visit," Morrell said.

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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic

(BERLIN, GERMANY) Barack Obama's speech at Tiergarten Park tonight has garnered a lot of attention and some criticism that the presumptive Democratic nominee did not expect to receive.
"Let's tamp down expectations here," Obama told reporters when asked how he prepares to speak to what some reports predict could be a crowd of a million people. "I doubt we are going to have a million screaming Germans," Obama predicted, however.

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