Cairo, Egypt - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Cairo, Egypt Index / Locations Transcripts Michael Leiter ...president went and gave his speech in Cairo . It was very widely reported about, ... ...to adopt that in something like the Cairo speech, later on domesti... ...on Al Jazeera, I was thinking about the Cairo speech, but what I hear you sayin... Jake Sullivan ...to the Middle East as outlined in the Cairo speech, engagement with Iran, th... ...love to get your reflections on Obama's Cairo speech in June. My understanding i... ...think it was February of 2010 when the Cairo speech happened. No joy in Mudville o... ...it was consistent with a theory of Cairo . If you go back and read Cairo and ma... ...of Cairo. If you go back and read Cairo and map it on to the Arab Spring, it'... Michael Mullen ...Then, it very quickly it rolled into Cairo . It rolled into Egypt, into Cairo, an... ...into Cairo. It rolled into Egypt, into Cairo , and that's when it just sort o... William Burns ...of speeches in Prague, in Istanbul— Cairo . —in Cairo, in Aukra. Could yo... ...in Prague, in Istanbul— Cairo. —in Cairo , in Aukra. Could you reflect on th... ...listen selectively. So the speech in Cairo , which I thought was terrific, tha... ...So when the president was in Cairo , were you there for the speech? ... ...those pressures building. Obama in his Cairo speech in 2009 had tried to addres... ...of that, and in a sense his speech in Cairo in 2009 had foreshadowed th... ...of what was happening in Tunis and in Cairo . You began to see those kinds o... ...that Obama had talked about in the Cairo speech in 2009, but to try to do it i... ...of a continuation and updating of the Cairo speech in 2009, in which the presiden... ...you can draw a line from the June 2009 Cairo speech to that May 2011 speech. Ther... Show more... Anne Patterson ...knowing that you would soon be in Cairo , or whether that came later. Knowin... ...set the scene, when did you arrive in Cairo , so we have the chronology right? Yo... ...your instructions when you arrived in Cairo , relative to the process o... ...years previous, we'd redone the whole Cairo sewer system. We had a whole lot o... ...of the Middle East. From the Cairo speech through the Arab Spring, i... Samantha Power ...2010. By then, he had already given his Cairo speech, and painted a picture not o... ...that, actually, those were interests of Cairo , as well, for example. And they'r... ...Square was the wolf at the door in Cairo , but all across the country—what tha... Colin Kahl ...Department. I'm thinking from the Cairo speech to the Arab Spring; I mean, th... ...extended an olive branch during the Cairo speech, which you referenced earlier... ...why Obama gave his speech in Cairo , right? So it was a BFD [big freakin... ...in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo ; and the Israeli embassy was actuall... ...of that. He had made that clear in the Cairo speech, both parts of that equation. S... Stephen Kroft ...the basis for some demonstrations in Cairo , at the embassy in Cairo that day, an... ...in Cairo, at the embassy in Cairo that day, and that was sort of what wa... Kenneth Roth ...it was before the Arab Spring. Yeah, Cairo was June of 2009 and Arab Spring wa... ...Tahrir Square prodemocracy uprising in Cairo —the initial US rhetoric wa... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa