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Article: Remarks by the President in Roundtable Interview with Radio Media on Burma.
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- August 7, 2008
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Ambassador's Residence
1:38 P.M. (Local)
THE PRESIDENT: I am in Bangkok, and one of the reasons I've come is not only to pay my respects to the government and the people of Thailand, but also to be in a position to speak about freedom in Burma. I just had lunch with some people that are deeply concerned about the future of Burma, people that were involved in the student marches of '88, people involved with humanitarian assistance. I was regretful that my wife couldn't join us, because she's an articulate spokesman for the people of Burma, but she's on the border, on this mission of saying to the Burmese people, you have friends and you're not ...