Puerto Rico - Obama Presidency Oral History Puerto Rico Index / Locations Transcripts Geraldine Richmond ...political aspect of it. We can look at Puerto Rico quite recently with Arecibo, which ha... ...we're going to show our commitment to Puerto Rico , then that's one way to sho... Jon Carson ...looked ugly; Kentucky, West Virginia, Puerto Rico . The truth is, there was sort of ... ...gets like eight delegates. And Guam— Puerto Rico is the biggest one, of course, but Gua... ...South Dakota or instead of deploying to Puerto Rico , if you want to be a data director fo... Richard Trumka ...we have each state, plus we have Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. And then there'... Stephanie Valencia ...this very famous Puerto Rican bakery in San Juan . But my job—and this was the chance w... ...this presidential motorcade through Old San Juan . And if you know anything about Ol... ...And if you know anything about Old San Juan , it's literally old, cobbleston... Ken Salazar ...to my east, or the blood of Christ; the San Juan Mountains, for Saint John the Baptist... Eric Waldo ...My mom is Rosana Torre. She's from Caguas , Puerto Rico. My dad is a Jewish gu... Jacob Lew ...to things. I mean, my time at Treasury, Puerto Rico was something that Congress was no... ...first, I wanted to ask just a bit about Puerto Rico . In October of 2015, th... ...a form of bankruptcy protection to Puerto Rico , not available widely to the othe... ...other states. And I know you visited Puerto Rico in January of 2016. Did that visi... ...had no authority to do anything in Puerto Rico , but if Puerto Rico collapsed, we kne... ...to do anything in Puerto Rico, but if Puerto Rico collapsed, we knew it was going to b... ...it had no authority to do anything for Puerto Rico , other than help figure out a solutio... ...I took this very seriously. I had a Puerto Rico task force in Treasury. I worked wit... ...Without going into the detail, Puerto Rico had a history of financial problem... ...tax policy changed and businesses left Puerto Rico . Puerto Rico had been like an offshor... ...and businesses left Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico had been like an offshore haven becaus... ...tax haven had the bad effect of hurting Puerto Rico 's economy. Puerto Rico had borrowe... ...of hurting Puerto Rico's economy. Puerto Rico had borrowed way more than it coul... ...forward. And Treasury did not have a Puerto Rico expertise. It did not have a bankruptc... ...way. The reason for the trip to Puerto Rico , candidly, was more to put a spotligh... ...had more traveling press on the trip to Puerto Rico than I ever had on my overseas trips... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Native America Native America go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns