Cairo, Egypt - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Cairo, Egypt Index / Locations Transcripts David Axelrod ...I've read that you traveled to Cairo with the president in June of 2009. An... ...Did being with the president in Cairo change how you saw him? I don't kno... ...balcony who were in Tahrir Square in Cairo protesting. And of course, so muc... Scott Gration ...from Khartoum to Cape Town—I mean, from Cairo to Cape Town, from Dakar to Djibouti... Farhana Khera ...when then President Obama went to Cairo and, in his address to the Arab an... Tommy Vietor ...the New York Times has an incredible Cairo bureau chief. That's the person writin... ...about how they be parsed in Israel, or Cairo , or Russia, or everywhere else. It wa... ...attacked and breached; the embassy in Cairo was attacked and breached. So what w... ...I believe, by [the] embassy [in] Cairo , where they were trying to mollify th... Michael Kassen ...a lot. We didn't talk about the Cairo speech, which was very important i... ...then. He went to Riyadh. He went to Cairo . He didn't go to Israel. And th... ...there, and I don't think he had gone to Cairo or Riyadh. But he didn't go. He gav... ...a little overwrought. If you read the Cairo speech, he created an impression tha... Dennis Ross ...the Arab world, and you see that in the Cairo speech—which is one of those bi... ...were advocating to have that speech in Cairo . Why was Egypt an important place t... ...needs to be on addressing them and Cairo . When you think about the Arab street... ...When you think about the Arab street, Cairo seems to be almost half of the Ara... ...Arab street, just given the population. Cairo is the place where it should be.... ...that. I want to hear you come back to Cairo in a second, but I'm intrigued by thi... ...personalities. To return to the Cairo speech, which is one of those moment... ...to impose them. But the audience in Cairo applauds when they hear the wor... ...that I wasn't used to seeing in Cairo . When we would go by, when traffic wa... ...images I had in my mind from being in Cairo many times before. Meaning lots o... ...a second thing that reinforced this. Cairo —more and more, the infrastructure jus... ...Arabia before he goes—after he does Cairo . Because he wants to be able to ge... ...goes to Saudi Arabia before he goes to Cairo . He stops there first, then he goes t... ...He stops there first, then he goes to Cairo . And Hillary tells me that after th... ...two of them are sitting in the car in Cairo and he's expressing what happened i... ...the reality is, giving the speech in Cairo and not going to Israel created a... ...that I should've gone to Israel after Cairo . By not going, I sent a message tha... Show more... Kevin Lewis ...the folks who were at the University of Cairo at the time. Just seeing that ther... Mara Rudman ...Middle East that would culminate in the Cairo speech in 2009. Does something lik... Derek Chollet ...roiling the Middle East. I forgot the Cairo speech, the famous Cairo speech. S... ...I forgot the Cairo speech, the famous Cairo speech. So that was all part of a... ...I know she was in attendance for the Cairo speech. Or was your work mostl... ...giving a speech in a place like Cairo or in Accra, Ghana, and then thinkin... ...had spoken to, going back to the Cairo speech in 2009. And there was ... ...the Middle East, or dating back to the Cairo speech and the role that he envisioned... ...the streets and the dilapidated feel of Cairo to what you were hearing from th... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Russia Russia go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media