Czech Republic - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Czech Republic Index / Locations Transcripts Terry Szuplat ...that he gives. He gives a speech in Prague . He gives a speech in Ankara, Turkey... ...them were around policy issues. Like in Prague , he talks about missile defense. Bu... ...in terms of framing US policies. The Prague speech is a great example of it. H... ...is a great example of it. He goes to Prague early in his term. He's there speakin... ...square. He's speaking to the people of Prague , but once again, it's a speech to th... ...entire nuclear policy. We called it the Prague agenda. You should, as an American, a... ...us. He goes to South Korea and gives a Prague follow-on, two dozen miles from th... ...of speeches—chapters in the same story. Prague speech is chapter one. Maybe th... ...to South Korea. He's going to give a Prague 2.0 kind of a speech, with ver... ...a speechwriter is go back and read the Prague speech. Even though I've read it dozen... ...to listen to a framing speech like the Prague speech, the speech in South Korea, hi... ...the other Afghan speeches to follow; Prague becomes, for all the nuclear speeche... ...the meeting where they decided to go to Prague , but as these trips started to com... ...you would think that the audience in Prague is totally different—and they ar... ...message, whether you're standing in Prague , or South Korea, or Africa, or India... Show more... Ben Rhodes ...would pursue that, and that became the Prague speech as president. I got a sense tha... ...affirmative agenda, that becomes the Prague speech, in particular, and then ... ...were going to give a speech in Prague . It's like, “What should we do?” I wa... ...a town hall in Strasbourg, France; the Prague speech obviously; and then Turkey... ...on.” In the same way, we had done the Prague speech. This is actually reall... ...people forget this. We'd done the Prague speech under the nuclea... Show more... Denis McDonough ...and less central. So that's where the Prague trips came on board. Then the Ira... ...in Ghana, for example, and Moscow and Prague and in Cairo in that first year—wha... Tom Donilon ...Pretty granular. Afghanistan, Haiti, Prague speech, or [unclear] speech... ...That resulted in two things. One is the Prague speech given in May of 2009. It als... ...just the speeches—Cairo and Accra and Prague —but the number of issues on which h... Antony Blinken ...a series of foreign policy speeches in Prague , and perhaps most notably in Cairo... Huma Abedin ...story about the time that we were in Prague , and she had spinach in her teeth, an... Esther Brimmer ...in April of 2009, most evocatively in Prague , of course, was a speech on nationa... ...he recommits. And he does that in the Prague speech. So, for the multilatera... Shailagh Murray ...I think he even called us from Prague and said—we were talking about going t... ...different places, and he called us from Prague —I'm pretty sure he was there—and said... ...I think, while we were living in Prague . The twenty-four-hour news cycl... Jon Favreau ...edits, but you got it.” I noticed the Prague speech was on the list, and that wa... ...had almost nothing to do with the Prague speech because I was—it was always fo... Alan Fitts ...that was the G20. Then we went on to Prague . The president then went on to Turkey... ...Iraq, I believe. We dropped off after Prague . That first trip to London—first o... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice