“This is my last election,” President Obama said in words caught on an open mic. “After my election, I have more flexibility.”
He was speaking in Seoul, South Korea, in March 2012, almost exactly two years ago, to Dmitri Medvedev, then in his last year as Vladimir Putin’s stand-in president of Russia.
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