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Barack Obama: greater engagement at a time and place of our choosing has been something that the President has talked about for almost…

On the recordApril 16, 2009
greater engagement at a time and place of our choosing has been something that the President has talked about for almost two years.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

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