G7 - Obama Presidency Oral History Back G7 Index / Organizations Transcripts Todd Stern ...ministerial—or sherpa, if this was the G7 context; call it sherpas. Leading up t... Scott Gration ...called the E6 [Envoy]. It was like the G7 [Group of Seven], except it was envoys... ...E6, sort of modeled after the E7 [read: G7 ] and the G20, and all these othe... Dennis Ross ...couple things happen. This is June; the G7 meeting, not the G20 meeting. There's ... Chuck Hagel ...I ran President George H. W. Bush's G7 summit in Houston, dealing with all th... Wally Adeyemo ...energy was devoted to the G20 and the G7 . Why was the international dimensio... ...role with the G20, and also with the G7 . Did you attend the G20 meetings i... ...be traveling with him to G20 meetings, G7 meetings, to his meetings wit... ...progress to be made the most is the G7 , and oftentimes, the G7 meeting—the G... ...the most is the G7, and oftentimes, the G7 meeting—the G7 meeting always woul... ...G7, and oftentimes, the G7 meeting—the G7 meeting always would come before th... ...the portfolio, that we would use the G7 as an institution to put greate... ...I spent a great deal of time with my G7 counterparts talking about stee... ...into everything from a G20 meeting to a G7 meeting to an international bilatera... ...representative to the G20 and the G7 , but I also had a great job and wa... ...because ultimately, the G20 and the G7 , while the leader plays a big role... ...during this time as his sherpa for the G7 and the G20. So first I wanted to as... ...with the president around these G20 and G7 summits, do you have any memories o... ...for me was that the Japanese hosted the G7 . I think it was in 2016. And one o... ...but they needed some money from the G7 . And we had set a very ambitious goa... ...goal for how much to raise from the G7 . And as I said earlier, my goal wa... ...And when the president arrived for the G7 , it was clear that we didn't have th... ...to you during that time, such as the G7 and the G20 sherpa role. But I actuall... ...It included everything from the G7 to G20—you were the president's sherp... ...every time I spent a day at a G20, or a G7 , or international meeting, and I'... ...and coordinating with our allies in the G7 . The issues related to China wer... Show more... Terry Szuplat ...it was. You know, the Gs—I lose track, G7 , G8. It was a G20, at a pres... Michael Froman ...case of the G8—and then it became the G7 after Russia was excluded, after th... Esther Brimmer ...of the US presentation in 1999 at the G7 . So, here again, we had a multilatera... ...again, we had a multilateral body, the G7 , directly drawing on those ideas. I... ...World Bank, but also the G20, also the G7 , and mixing them up, and you brin... ...you have both the food agencies and the G7 are involved there. And then anothe... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy