Obama took a paper copy to the lectern to speak. Early in the weeklong trip, the traveling White House was irritable over coverage of Obama’s lifting of a half-century-old arms embargo against Vietnam. The sight bolstered Obama’s impulse in his final years in office to write U.S. foreign policy in bolder, potentially historic, strokes. Finally, he headed to Hiroshima, the last stop on a trip that likely will only be long remembered for what happened there. “It was like a ray of light,” said one Obama administration official who was in the presidential motorcade.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 28, 2016 18:33 UTC