Laos - Obama Presidency Oral History

...in Laos in 1973. I spent three years in Laos until I came to Hawaiʻi in 1976. The...

...for a couple of years. I went back to Laos in 2016 for four years. 2012 for fou...

...Kerry's visit to Vietnam, the visit to Laos . I'm naming just a few. I jus...

...and things that he said when he went to Laos , as well as when he went t...

...were coming up in the fall, and in 2016 Laos would be the chair of ASEAN. I ha...

...thinking about the president's trip to Laos , because we, of course, were committe...

...was the president would go to Laos . Given our limited relations wit...

...Laos. Given our limited relations with Laos , what would he do there, and s...

...2015. We went to Myanmar twice and then Laos three times. Yes, I was on all thos...

...on all the trips. But for Myanmar and Laos , those two years, I went on all th...

...monks, the activists in Myanmar and Laos ; the peacekeepers who are keeping ...

...trip to Laos. An American president in Laos ? That was like the sequel to th...

...trip. When he went to Luang Prabang [ Laos ], this place you would never imagin...

...really the rising China, and then Laos . Then the Cuba trip we talked about...

...it, the last two years: Vietnam, Cuba, Laos . It's crazy that that happened, if yo...

...which are, as you said, five countries: Laos , Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, an...

...But then when it became Cambodia and Laos , I did more combining. I oftentime...

...And so I helped to organize an event in Laos , because in that region, in countrie...

...in that region, in countries like Laos and Cambodia, fifty to sixty percent o...