Liberia - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Liberia Index / Locations Transcripts Samantha Tubman ...Howard University. My father was from Liberia , Africa, so as soon as the civil wa... ...ended up leaving the US to go back to Liberia . You're talking about the civil wa... ...I am half Liberian. My father is from Liberia . And she went there. And so they aske... ...was her last foreign trip. She went to Liberia , she went to Morocco, and then I wan... ...girls there. But spending two weeks in Liberia and planning her trip there an... Rajiv Shah ...workers throughout West Africa, Liberia in particular, that, frankly, were jus... ...sites, particularly throughout Liberia , was so dramatic, the public healt... ...resources we could safely deploy into Liberia . So at that moment, we worke... ...through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia , parts of Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, i... ...EOCs in all three countries—Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone. I actually sen... ...[read: innovation] officer to Liberia to sit in the EOC with a gentleman wh... Show more... Joanna Rosholm ...as first lady, at least solo, was to Liberia , Morocco, and Spain. So those were th... ...Morocco was nothing like the issue in Liberia . But the connection was that it stil... ...about all of them, in some ways. In Liberia , one of the problems was not havin... ...being, Ebola had been a huge problem in Liberia , and food, and access to food, an... ...for the New York Times and lived in Liberia , and HelloGiggles—which just shows yo... ...HelloGiggles' team had never been to Liberia . The way motorcades work in general... ...plane and departing. We did not stay in Liberia . We actually stayed in Cape Verde th... ...in Cuba was not the issue it was in Liberia and Morocco. The girls there were bein... ...could take them with us to Africa and Liberia , Morocco, and Spain. Again, I don'... ...me. Don't worry. Qatar, Jordan, Liberia , and Morocco. From Liberia, we wen... ...Jordan, Liberia, and Morocco. From Liberia , we went straight to Morocco. W... ...it's if she's going to travel to Liberia —What's that going to look like? It'... Show more... Pranav Shetty ...on now. But I ended up going to Liberia in early August of 2014, and then wa... ...main affected countries in West Africa— Liberia , Sierra Leone, and Guinea—intersect... ...stages. So I was then deployed to Liberia . It was just me actually for [laughs... ...a facility in a place called Bong in Liberia , which is about four hours east o... ...every other source of medical care in Liberia got shut down. If you broke your leg... ...we ended up starting another one in Liberia . I know most about Liberia, bu... ...one in Liberia. I know most about Liberia , but International Medical Corps als... ...several, several millions, as a city. Liberia , in the whole country has five millio... Show more... Craig Spencer ...about West Africa as kind of Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone, because those wer... ...but a lot of people talk about Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone as West Africa... ...by decades of civil war. If you look at Liberia and Sierra Leone just before that, i... ...was just kilometers from where Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone came together... ...mean as much to people in Guinea and Liberia and Sierra Leone as perhaps the borde... ...them. Now, what we saw here in Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone—which was differen... ...is still so stubbornly high in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Under-five mortalit... ...radar in West Africa in Guinea, Liberia , Sierra Leone that Ebola could pop up... ...York City than there were in Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone combined. So ther... ... That was very different in Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone, because when we go... ...centers in places, particularly in Liberia , that never saw a patient; where th... ...The healthcare systems in Guinea, Liberia , and Sierra Leone are not going to ge... Show more... Vivek Murthy ...that we had created in Monrovia, in Liberia , to help care for those who had Ebol... ...and it was a big deal to send them to Liberia . But the reason we had to do it i... ...the world. I remember when I went to Liberia in May, I believe it was, of 2015 t... ...Sirleaf, at the time the president of Liberia . And that's what she said. She said... Andrew Herscowitz ...I'll explain to you why. Then we added Liberia , just for a whole variety of reasons... ...was involved in providing generators to Liberia as part of the US government's Ebol... ...most proud of. The Ebola crisis hits. Liberia was one of our priority countries. W... ...million dollars that was set aside for Liberia . It wasn't moving very quickly. You'r... Tina Tchen ...the next year when we did Spain and Liberia . So we went to Liberia with Presiden... ...we did Spain and Liberia. So we went to Liberia with President Johnson Sirleaf an... ...too. When we did Spain, I think we did Liberia , Italy, Spain. Because we also did th... Anthony Fauci ...in Guinea, then it spilled over into Monrovia in Liberia, and then it went to Sierr... ...time ever it hit the cities. It hit Monrovia . It hit Conakry [Guinea]. It hit al... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation