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The President. Thank you. NOTE: The President spoke at 1:27 p.m. in the Secretary of Commerce Gary F. Locke. Thank State Dining Room at the White House. In his you, Mr. President. remarks, he referred to Julia, Jane, Ruth, and The President. Thank you, everybody. Kathleen Bryson, daughters of Secretary- designate Bryson.

Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting Designations Under the Kingpin Act June 1, 2011

Dear ______: ranking member, Senate Committee on Armed Services; Max S. Baucus, chairman, and This report to the Congress, under section Orrin G. Hatch, ranking member, Senate 804(a) of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Des- Committee on Finance; John F. Kerry, chair- ignation Act, 21 U.S.C. 1901–1908 (the “King- man, and Richard G. Lugar, ranking member, pin Act”), transmits my designations of the fol- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Pat- lowing seven foreign individuals as appropriate rick J. Leahy, chairman, and Charles E. Grass- for sanctions under the Kingpin Act and re- ports my direction of sanctions against them ley, ranking member, Senate Committee on under the Act: the Judiciary; Dianne Feinstein, chairman, and C. Saxby Chambliss, vice chairman, Senate Se- Manuel Torres Felix (Mexico) lect Committee on Intelligence; Howard P. Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza (Mexico) “Buck” McKeon, chairman, and Adam Smith, Haji Lal Jan Ishaqzai (Afghanistan) ranking member, House Committee on Armed Kamchybek Asanbekovich Kolbayev (Kyr- Services; Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman, and gyzstan) Howard L. Berman, ranking member, House John Harun Mwau (Kenya) Committee on Foreign Affairs; Lamar S. Naima Mohamed Nyakiniywa (Kenya) Smith, chairman, and John J. Conyers, Jr., Javier Antonio Calle Serna (Colombia) ranking member, House Committee on the Ju- Sincerely, diciary; David L. Camp, chairman, and Sander M. Levin, ranking member, House Committee BARACK OBAMA on Ways and Means; and Michael J. Rogers, chairman, and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger, NOTE: Identical letters were sent to Carl M. ranking member, House Permanent Select Levin, chairman, and John S. McCain III, Committee on Intelligence.

Remarks at the Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremony June 2, 2011

Thank you very much. Thank you. Please, well the diplomatic corps that is here, as well as please, everybody, have a seat. Secretary Arne Duncan. Well, thank you, Tom, for that introduction. On behalf of Michelle and myself, I want to Thank you to the entire Pritzker family for begin by congratulating tonight’s winner, Edu- your friendship and incredible generosity to- ardo Souto de Moura. And I also want to rec- wards so many causes. I want to welcome as ognize the members of the prize jury, who I

632 Administration of Barack Obama, 2011 / June 3 think have a very difficult task in choosing from Like Jefferson, tonight’s honoree has spent so many outstanding architects all around the his career not only pushing the boundaries of world. his art, but doing so in a way that serves the Now, as Tom mentioned, my interest in ar- public good. Eduardo Souto de Moura has de- chitecture goes way back. There was a time signed homes, shopping centers, art galleries, when I thought I could be an architect, where schools, and subway stations, all in a style that I expected to be more creative than I turned seems as effortless as it is beautiful. He’s an ex- out—so I had to go into politics instead. pert at the use of different materials and col- [Laughter] ors, and his simple shapes and clean lines al- And as the Pritzkers and so many others ways fit seamlessly into their surroundings. here can attest, if you love architecture there Perhaps Eduardo’s most famous work is the are few better places to live than in my home- stadium he designed in , . Never town of Chicago. It is the birthplace of the sky- one to settle for the easy answer, Eduardo scraper, a city filled with buildings and public wanted to build this particular stadium on the spaces designed by architects like Louis Sulli- side of a mountain. So he blasted out nearly a van, Frank Lloyd Wright, and , million and a half cubic yards of granite from who is here tonight. the mountainside, then crushed it to make the In fact, the headquarters of our last campaign concrete necessary to build the stadium. was in a building based on a design by Mies van He also took great care to position the stadi- der Rohe. And for 2 years, we crammed it full of um in such a way that anyone who couldn’t af- hundreds of people working around the clock ford a ticket could watch the match from the and surviving on nothing but pizza. [Laughter] surrounding hillsides, kind of like Portugal’s I’m not sure if that’s what Mies had in mind, but version of Wrigley Field. [Laughter] it worked out pretty well for us. And that combination of form and function, And that’s what architecture is all about. It’s of artistry and accessibility, is why today we about creating buildings and spaces that in- honor Eduardo with what is known as the No- spire us, that help us do our jobs, that bring us bel Prize of architecture. As Frank Gehry, a together, and that become, at their best, works former winner of this prize, said, “Architecture of art that we can move through and live in. should speak of its time and place, but yearn And in the end, that’s why architecture can be for timelessness.” I want to thank all the men considered the most democratic of art forms. and women who create these timeless works of That’s perhaps why Thomas Jefferson, who art, not only to bring us joy, but to help make helped enshrine the founding principles of our this world a better place. Nation, had such a passion for architecture and And, Tom, thank you again for your extraor- design. He spent more than 50 years perfect- dinary patronage of architecture. It makes an ing his home at Monticello. And he spent enormous difference. Thank you very much. countless hours sketching and revising his ar- chitectural drawings for the University of Vir- NOTE: The President spoke at 7:04 p.m. at the ginia, a place where he hoped generations Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. In his remarks, would study and become, as he described it, he referred to Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman “the future bulwark of the human mind in this and president of the Hyatt Foundation, sponsor hemisphere.” of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Remarks at the Chrysler Toledo Assembly Complex in Toledo, Ohio June 3, 2011

The President. Thank you, everybody. Thank It is good to be back in Toledo. It is good to you. Everybody, please have a seat. Please have be with all of you. Now, for those of you who a seat. I’ve met up close, I just want you to know that

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