Barack Obama
President Obama reiterated the importance of U.S. engagement with the world and the international affairs budget on Monday during a Google+ “Hangout” and broadcast live on Youtube, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition reported.
During a trip to Disneyland last week and as part of his ‘We Can’t Wait’ jobs initiative, President Obama announced new initiatives targeted at boosting travel and tourism in the U.S. and making the U.S. “the world’s top travel and tourism destination,” according to a White House press statement.
President Obama announced today his intent to nominate Tara D. Sonenshine for Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Department of State. Assistant Secretary of State (R) Ann Stock has been in the role of Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs since July 8, 2011.
Sonenshine’s biography as posted on the White House website is as follows:
At a Town Hall in Atkinson, IL, last week, President Obama referred to the importance of learning a foreign language for all Americans, as it makes student more employable and competitive in the global economy:
Speaking to several thousand guests, including a group of German exchange students participating in the Congress-Bundestag Program (CBYX), at a welcome ceremony for German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel on the White House South Lawn yesterday, President Obama and the Chancellor both stressed the close cooperation between the U.S. and Germany and the partnership of their people.
In a joint fact sheet issued yesterday, President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron stressed the importance of UK-US collaboration in the fields of higher education, science, and innovation and the need for “stronger and deeper engagement” between British and American students:
During his speech yesterday on the Middle East and North Africa, President Obama said the U.S. must "continue to make good” on the commitments he made during his 2009 Cairo speech, including expanding exchanges:
At a joint press conference with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera in Santiago last week, President Obama talked about the U.S.’ and Chile’s commitment to expand educational exchanges between the two countries:
During his travels to Brazil last week, President Obama and his Brazilian counterpart, President Dilma Rousseff, agreed to strengthen educational ties and increase exchanges between the two countries, according to a fact sheet of the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
According to the fact sheet:
