>> FLASHBACK: When Obama brought Prime Minister Cameron to Dayton?
Well, there’s more to that story.
As Cameron explains in his recently released memoir "For the Record (HarperCollins, $40)," Obama extended extreme hospitality to the British politician following the basketball game, Cameron's first.
Credit: Barbara Perenic
Credit: Barbara Perenic
Below is an excerpt taken from a tweet by Jonathan Martin, a New York Times national political correspondent.
Some Twitter users joked that Martin buried the lead in his tweet.
The passage about being tucked in reads:
“Traveling back on Air Force One, I was beginning to flag (tire). It was about 3 a.m. UK time. ‘Why don’t you use my bed?” Obama asked. He opened a door at the front of the plane, to reveal a double bed in its nose. As I leaned back on it, he proceeded to tuck me in with a blanket... ‘ I bet Roosevelt never did this for Churchill,’” he said.
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The book was the first time Cameron relayed the story.
Some news I’ve been waiting to share for a couple of days....
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 28, 2019
But now’s the time @David_Cameron included a reference to going w Obama to the play-in game in his memoir: pic.twitter.com/IICzOz9fb1
Cameron told the story at a business award ceremony a week after the trip to Dayton, according to the Telegraph.
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He reportedly said:
“So I duly did and Barack went to the back of the plane and explained to my private secretary and the team, he said ‘Don’t worry, the British Prime Minister is fine, I’ve just tucked him up in bed’.”
Credit: Barbara Perenic
Credit: Barbara Perenic
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