Obama aides have Web plan for speech in Cairo

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to distribute the president's Thursday speech across the Internet to make sure it has the widest distribution possible, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

To reach a worldwide audience, President Obama's aides are looking beyond television and newspaper coverage.

"The Internet team here is working with a host of others to get this information to as many platforms as humanly possible so that people will get a chance all over the world to see what the president has to say," Gibbs said.

Still, he said, the president doesn't expect the speech will be a breakthrough moment for the U.S. relationship with Muslims.

"We don't expect that everything will change after one speech," Gibbs said. "It will take a sustained effort, and that's what the president's in for."

After giving his address in Egypt, the president will stop in Germany and then travel to France for a commemoration of the D-Day invasion in Normandy.