I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.

I would have fired BP chief by now, Obama says (June 8, 2010) - 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)

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