Eight Months of Obama's Diplomacy

Barack Obama's Diplomacy
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On the Art of Negotiation
The President appears at the G-20 summit of the world's leading economies in Pittsburgh, Pa., in September 2009. "Well, if it's just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, you know, that's an easier negotiation," Obama said at one point. "But that's not the world we live in. And it shouldn't be the world that we live in."

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