
Entry 073Mar 26, 2012
“This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”73
73Barack Obama, President of the United States, Hot mic with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Nuclear Security Summit, Seoul, March 26, 2012. Source
Why it’s on the record. The President privately told a foreign government that his policy positions were being timed around his own reelection, the reverse of what he said in public. The White House said only that arms control could not be done in an election year.
On the record
Not knowing the microphones were live, Obama told Medvedev that missile defense could be resolved but that Putin needed to give him 'space' until after the 2012 election. Medvedev promised to 'transmit this information to Vladimir.'
- Said by
- Barack Obama, President of the United States
- Where
- Hot mic with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Nuclear Security Summit, Seoul
- When
- Mar 26, 2012
- Source
- Hot mic with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Nuclear Security Summit, Seoul, March 26, 2012