US Agency for International Development - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Agency for International Development Index / Organizations Transcripts John Brennan ...as the Food for Peace officer with the Agency for International Development . So at that time, in the summer o... Richard Verma ...experiencing cuts over many years, and USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...many years, and USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] similarly, so we really fough... Olsen Jean-Julien ...American military thing. I also saw the USAID [US Agency for Internationa... ...military thing. I also saw the USAID [ US Agency for International Development ] developing a few operations, ver... ...few operations, very heavy operations. USAID was involved a lot in removing rubbl... ...was very important, too, because we had USAID on the ground, you have the U... ...of discussions, of course. We would use USAID 's capacity to remove rubble so we ca... Robert Gates ...intelligence, AID [United States Agency for International Development ] had fifteen thousand people. An... Chuck Hagel ...citizens. For example, I brought the USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...I brought the USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] director and he made bi... Hadi Pir ...left. We decided to—or actually, the USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...actually, the USAID [United States Agency for International Development ] started contacting us, and we starte... ...us, and we started working with USAID for those people who escaped to refuge... ...To be honest, yes, mostly yes. The USAID was very responsive. They were willin... ...Labor, or did it pivot to, as you said, USAID and some of the other bureaus that wer... ...we almost automatically shifted to the USAID . But we stayed in contact with Leann... ...them and send them emails. There was USAID . There was other people even at th... Show more... William Taylor ...with the Treasury Department, with USAID [United States Agency for Internationa... ...Department, with USAID [United States Agency for International Development ], with other parts of the Stat... ...in touch. He was a senior official at USAID , had run the Overseas Foreign Disaste... ...to see Mark. He was at that time at USAID over in the Ronald Reagan Building. S... ...was that the relationship between USAID and State was really important, an... ...that it's really important to have USAID as a partner, because that's where th... ...in the US government is, of course, the USAID . So they got the lion's share, th... ...was a built-in tension there because USAID was not used to having a coordinato... ...Armitage and his counterparts at USAID . All to say that I knew well th... ...I knew well the importance of having USAID 's leadership and bureaucracy an... ...I had a very good relationship with USAID back when I was the coordinator o... ...collaborative relationship with USAID and other agencies. But AID was th... ...to see Mark, I had in mind having a USAID deputy, someone from USAID would be m... ...having a USAID deputy, someone from USAID would be my deputy to make that work... ...because Mark, as I say, very senior USAID official. So he came over, and he wa... ...our meetings—were responsive. But also USAID and Treasury and Justice, the military... ...offices that it involved, but also from USAID and Treasury, Commerce, Defens... ...direct policy. And some agencies like USAID chafed under this, but it seemed t... ...as well, some direct assistance through USAID . But one of the things that we coul... ...our work in Egypt was done through the USAID mission and, of course, through th... ...and I would work very closely with the USAID mission. I think at the time the USAI... ...USAID mission. I think at the time the USAID mission in Cairo was the largest in th... ...assistance going to Egypt went through USAID , whereas most of the assistance goin... ...because she'd been there through every USAID mission director and every U... ...was a lot of this tension also with USAID . There was another guy, an aide a... ...There was another guy, an aide at USAID , named Jim Bever, James Bever, who wa... ...Jim Bever, James Bever, who was the USAID mission director. He came out before ... ...the assistance the Americans—and under USAID , Jim could control withou... ...but I think there actually were some USAID contractors who did, who provided som... Show more... Michael Posner ...from what the embassy was saying or USAID [US Agency for Internationa... ...what the embassy was saying or USAID [ US Agency for International Development ]. In fact, one of the things tha... ...initiatives coming out of USAID or MEPI, the Middle East Partnershi... Arturo Valenzuela ...in working on democracy issues with USAID [US Agency for Internationa... ...on democracy issues with USAID [ US Agency for International Development ], where he had just been name... ...and would instead prefer to help out at USAID . When I reported that conversatio... Roberta Jacobson ...in Cuba, the American who was an AID [ Agency for International Development ] contractor, but that was one of th... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Education Education go to the Science Science go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Public Health Public Health