President Barack Obama will discuss the oil-leak containment strategy in his Tuesday night speech about the Gulf oil disaster, a senior administration official told CNN Monday.

President Barack Obama will meet Wednesday with BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg at the White House, a senior White House official told CNN Thursday.

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