Obama Uses March Madness to Urge Fans to Donate to Japan
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President Barack Obama urged basketball fans to take a break from filling out brackets predicting college basketball tournament winners to visit the U.S. Agency for International Development’s website and consider making a donation “to help the people who have been devastated in Japan.”
“Go to usaid.gov and that’s going to list a whole range of charities where you can potentially contribute,” Obama said during an interview for broadcast later today on ESPN, where he reveals his own choices for the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s basketball championship, an event promoted as March Madness. “I think that would be a great gesture as you’re filling out your brackets.”