Obama's Biggest Global Moments

The images that defined Obama's first four years on the world stage, with reflections from those who were intimately involved in shaping them.

JANUARY 21, 2013

 

Cairo speech (June 2009)

One of the reasons that the president went to Cairo was to go to a place that needed change and to do it in a way that wasn't calling out [former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, but was calling out that the United States was going to be on the side of change in a hopefully responsible, sustainable way." 

-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, June 2012

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