Cairo, Egypt - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Cairo, Egypt Index / Locations Transcripts Terry Szuplat ...The most famous of them is Cairo . I'm really interested in the Accra... ...His speech to the Muslim world in Cairo very much helped shape so much of th... James Jones ...2009, the president gives a speech in Cairo [Egypt] on seeking a new beginning wit... ...the Nobel Peace Prize; and three is the Cairo speech. If you read those three things... ...maybe once in a lifetime. Were you in Cairo with him when he gave the speech? ... Ben Rhodes ...Turkey, to the Turkish parliament; in Cairo , to the Muslim world; in Accra, Ghana... ...in Japan, to Asia. Every region got a Cairo speech; It wasn't just a Cairo speec... ...got a Cairo speech; It wasn't just a Cairo speech to the UN General Assembly, kin... ...can't remember exactly when, after the Cairo speech, which we should talk abou... ...Let's dive deep. I'd love to talk about Cairo , but you mentioned Turkey comes first... ...That's why I mentioned Turkey. And then Cairo becomes the exemplar of the genr... ...did the preparations for the Cairo speech start? In the campaign, i... ...two choices ended up being Jakarta or Cairo . A bunch of people wanted him to go t... ...I was like, “No, no.” I wanted to go to Cairo because I knew that was more fraught... ...in Indonesia; it's in the Arab world. Cairo is the heart of the Arab world. It'... ...the heart of Sunni learning.” He chose Cairo . That trip is fascinating. W... ...we'd go to Saudi Arabia first, and then Cairo . And then, knowing sensitivities i... ...issue, and if he'd gone right from Cairo to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, it would hav... ...I set about writing the Cairo speech. That process is ver... ...two or three days. Then getting to Cairo , feeling very good about the speech... ...extraordinary sequence of events in Cairo where first we go to meet with [Hosni... ...I believe, are just a week after the Cairo speech. And the Lebanese elections. ... ...some analysts who were like, “Maybe the Cairo speech had an impact on the Lebanes... ...and some people attributed that to the Cairo speech. Then, of course, there's thi... ...how do you respond. The fact that the Cairo speech was just weeks before did tha... ...to what I had been a part of in the Cairo speech. I was arguing for him to spea... ...time, in part because I'd written the Cairo speech, that we should have been mor... ...to the depth that we went in regards to Cairo —how did that Accra speech com... ...Arab Spring, to me, it starts with the Cairo speech. Again, not because that cause... ...the Arab Spring, but because he went to Cairo , which became the epicenter of th... ...of all of this. Even right after the Cairo speech, there were some indication... ...surprising direction shortly after the Cairo speech, and people thought, “Well, ar... ...in Iran happens shortly after the Cairo speech. It doesn't start until—for me... ...I had heard repeatedly in writing the Cairo speech and engaging civil society—... ...through town because of my role in the Cairo speech. I developed this set o... ...told me once that the importance of the Cairo speech was that Egyptians saw someon... ...had introduced this concept in the Cairo speech—really with respect to th... Show more... Denis McDonough ...Arab world, which he ended up doing in Cairo , obviously. He said that he woul... ... I wonder if I could ask you about Cairo specifically, because it's reall... ...speech. Then, as we were flying up to Cairo , the president is still workin... ...example, and Moscow and Prague and in Cairo in that first year—what was th... ...you—one of the criticisms of the Cairo speech is that there wasn't enoug... Hillary Clinton ...in Indonesia as of a piece with Obama's Cairo speech later on, part of a broade... ...recall, being one of them. He landed on Cairo for a lot of reasons, one of which wa... ...long tradition of Islamic scholars in Cairo . But we were casting a much broade... ...to report, and then I would fly to Cairo , because it appeared that the bes... ...would all play out. Then I did fly to Cairo . I did go. I spent several hours wit... ...For example, you mentioned earlier the Cairo speech. The president and I went t... ...was a distinguished diplomat—to go to Cairo and literally sit down with Mubarak... Show more... Tom Donilon ...back, in 2009, not just the speeches— Cairo and Accra and Prague—but the number o... Antony Blinken ...in Prague, and perhaps most notably in Cairo , but also in Accra, Ghana; in Turke... Wendy Sherman ...trying to reshape that landscape. His Cairo speech, where he really tried to se... ...for his presidency? I think he in his Cairo —in his inauguration, actually—he sai... ...And he meant Iran. And when he gave his Cairo speech, he was explicit about saying h... Huma Abedin ...trips to me was President Obama's Cairo speech. I was lucky enough to b... ...live our lives? No.” That resentment. Cairo was, [sighs] just an unbelievable... ...the speech—it's not just limited to the Cairo speech. It's some of the other speeche... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Labor Labor go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy