Tucson, AZ - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Tucson, AZ Index / Locations Transcripts David Axelrod ...and that is the shooting in a suburb of Tucson , Arizona, in January of 2011, whic... ...at that moment. You accompanied him to Tucson for the memorial service. I don'... ...I don't think I accompanied him to Tucson for the memorial service. Got it. ... Rebecca Tallent ...to go, and I was spending the summer in Tucson with my parents. And I got a messag... Alan Bersin ...to get people from Nogales through Tucson to Phoenix, and then from Phoenix bot... Janet Napolitano ...then you close off what's called the Tucson Sector, which is most of the Arizon... ...for the entire country were in the Tucson Sector. It was a real flood. Arizonan... ...Well, when they lost control of the Tucson Sector, people got scared. And ther... ...One is, we needed to get control of the Tucson Sector. So we began a real initiativ... ...up our Border Patrol presence in the Tucson Sector. And we wanted to create ... ...attorney in Pima County, which is Tucson , before he was elected senator. A... ...the special agent in charge of the Tucson office of the DEA. Anyway, he an... ...takes us back to Arizona, which is the Tucson shooting in which Representativ... ...rang, and it was the former head of my Tucson office when I was governor, Jan Lesher... ...me and she said, “No, I'm right here at Tucson Medical Center. They just wheeled he... ...in touch with Jan, who was on site in Tucson . We were able to keep the White Hous... ...whenever you received word of the Tucson shooting. You talked about the fac... Show more... Shailagh Murray ...D.] Giffords, for example, in Tucson ? Yeah, it's much more—I mean, thos... Jon Favreau ...2010, when Gabby Giffords was shot in Tucson . That is one of the reasons Cod... ...worked mostly on Obama's memorial after Tucson ; because I was working on State of th... ...It's funny because we went through Tucson , and in Tucson he was very careful no... ...because we went through Tucson, and in Tucson he was very careful not to say anythin... ...happened. When he gave remarks after Tucson , I think it was mainly—and we talke... Cody Keenan ...three specific speeches. The first, the Tucson speech after the shooting that injure... ...what he wanted to accomplish at the Tucson memorial service, what did he tell yo... ...that I should go back and look at. But Tucson for me—just speaking as ... ...the parking lot of a grocery store in Tucson where she was going to meet wit... ...aides who worked in the, I assume, Tucson office. But because a congressperson i... ...or three days. We were going to go to Tucson for it. I remember calling my mothe... ...that happened in the few days after Tucson . One of the first things that somebod... ...how can something like this happen in Tucson ? And they were like, “You know what... ...at the end. I remember flying home from Tucson that night, and there was som... ...than what he wanted to convey after Tucson ? For sure. Do you mind if I take ... ...So you had just been talking about the Tucson speech, and actually, maybe before w... ...anonymity.” Your role in writing the Tucson speech was really widely reported i... ...really. We were flying back from Tucson that night, and there's this incredibl... ...way to do it. He asked me to do the Tucson eulogy when he was busy with the Stat... ...of Blacksburg, and Newtown, and Tucson , they deserve a vote,” and just di... Show more... Astra Taylor ...neighborhood on the south side of Tucson , where we were actually incredibl... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Human Rights Human Rights go to the Labor Labor go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Public Health Public Health go to the The People's House The People's House