Mohamed Morsi - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Michael Kassen

...of a Muslim Brotherhood president, [Mohamed] Morsi . Again, just speaking for me rathe...
...rights parade, and they weren't under Morsi either, under the Muslim Brotherhood...

Dennis Ross

...when he himself gets forced out when [Mohamed] Morsi removes him. Everything got tilte...

Derek Chollet

...Brotherhood elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi . So the first trip I went on wit...
...I think, was this trip that he met with Morsi as the new president during thi...
...from military rule to civilian rule. Morsi made a lot of people in the regio...
...that the US was going to work with Morsi , that we were trying to help hi...
...Mubarak go, willingness to work with Morsi , willingness to talk to Iran about it...

...very uncomfortable. Anyway, so you got Morsi in power. And I was, both in supportin...
...turned over control to civilians under Morsi , the military started to get more an...
...and the security situation; that Morsi was not doing a particularly good job...
...of Egypt who had been handpicked by Morsi —and, in fact, had been picked over, ...
...there's a lot of concern he's a Morsi guy. He had vaulted over so many peopl...

Jeffrey Feltman

...of May 2012. Then you had elections. [Mohamed] Morsi becomes president. I saw Morsi tha...
...Morsi becomes president. I saw Morsi that fall as a UN official, not as a U...
...in late 2012. And it was clear that Morsi , by that point, had moved beyon...
...overthrew Mubarak, the army overthrew Morsi , and that must be weighing heavily o...

Chuck Hagel

...[Abdel Fattah al-] Sisi overthrew [Mohamed] Morsi in Egypt. I was there right before i...
...it happened, and I had met with both Morsi and Sisi, and I got to know Sisi. I wa...

William Taylor

...Brotherhood won the elections. Was it Mohamed Morsi ? I think Mohamed Morsi. Yes. Mors...
...Was it Mohamed Morsi? I think Mohamed Morsi . Yes. Morsi was flawed bu...
...Morsi? I think Mohamed Morsi. Yes. Morsi was flawed but nonetheless elected. An...
...coordinator. And this was in Morsi 's government, or beforehand? No, sh...
...for the elections, and then the Morsi government was elected. But she was th...

...tension. Later on, it got into the Morsi regime. And I left, by the way, after...
...second year when we were dealing with Morsi , there was a lot on the economic sid...
...with the economic team under Morsi had to do with the IMF [Internationa...
...to release our assistance. So with the Morsi regime and Morsi's minister of finance...
...with the Morsi regime and Morsi 's minister of finance, we made tha...
...protest to some of the changes that Morsi wants to make throughout 2012 and 2013...

Anne Patterson

...got rid of Mubarak, they got rid of [Mohamed] Morsi . If al-Sisi goes, it'll be by th...
...or whatever. You were left with Mohamed Morsi . The other thing that happened is tha...
...say about it, but just, to what extent Morsi 's emergence and election in the summe...
...or at what point it became a reality? Morsi won a free and fair election. There wa...
...sitting there, and all of a sudden, Morsi was announced as the president. We wer...

...happened, but that is what happened, so Morsi was named president, and it becam...
...understand the extent of at that time. Morsi is in power essentially for a yea...
...year. How did your work change once Morsi 's in power? What kind of relationshi...
...and we had very good access to Morsi 's people. I did not have ...
...I did not have a relationship with Morsi personally. In all of my tour...
...with his people. The problem with Morsi was that he didn't have a clue what h...
...what kind of influence they had on Morsi . As time went on, the point we misse...
...get rid of him. Again, the problem with Morsi —let me give you an example. I hear...
...back, that Secretary Kerry has run into Morsi in an AU [African Union] meetin...
...somewhere in Africa. Kerry says to Morsi , “I've been trying to call you on th...
...phone, lots of issues to discuss,” and Morsi says something like, “Well, I won'...
...to this conglomeration of views about Morsi . If he'd been somebody else, he migh...
...to grow again, in this case against Morsi 's government? What was th...
...to us and say, “Okay, if you can get Morsi to hold an off-cycle election,” tha...
...put out there to essentially reduce Morsi 's power, or turn it in a differen...
...guy. Then the military said that Morsi had disrespected them and that the...
...that was true or not. I didn't think Morsi was quite that stupid, but I thin...
...was quite that stupid, but I think Morsi had almost no appreciation of the othe...
...was like third down, and goes to Morsi , and he basically says, “You can'...
...eye on the top. He managed to convince Morsi to appoint him as the guy in charge...
...with Khairat al-Shater. I went out to Morsi 's, I think, the day before the...
...al-Sisi than they ever felt with Mohamed Morsi . They were also not distressed, to sa...
...and probably relieved to get rid of Morsi and have him replaced by th...
...unmindful about this at the time. If Morsi had been a more attractive and mor...
...well, and when he managed to convince Morsi to put him in charge, the message was...
...to put him in charge, the message was, Morsi 's bitten off more than he can che...

Kenneth Roth

...when the first election took place and [Mohamed] Morsi won, you know, the Muslim Brotherhood...
...route than the violent route. And Morsi represented the electoral route. He wa...

John Kerry

...Egypt in jeopardy and [Mohamed Mohamed] Morsi [Issa al-Ayyat] and the revolution, an...

Hillary Clinton

...was the Muslim Brotherhood president, [Mohamed] Morsi , at that time. So, going back t...
...as to, if I were successful getting Morsi to convince Hamas to agree to ...
...I did go. I spent several hours with Morsi , with his team—although he was th...
...own. That did not happen. So as soon as Morsi got in, they began to plot to...

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