I believe Mr. Malcolm got something twisted with the I's. Read it 4 yourself. The President is not in some bragging mode as implied by Mr. Malcolm. The President is stating facts, congratulating, urging thanking Congress & every day American's 4 a Job well done.

I've stated consistently that it was critical....

I Congratulate members of Congress.....

I urge them to keep working to come to an agreement.....

I want to thank every American who raised their voice.....

Q: What were the challenges in being one of the first Russian general managers of a Western company?

A: OK, so I don't know the history of baseball in as much depth as maybe a boy from Chicago, but that's not that important for growth at Boeing. At some point it became obvious that in order to grow the business here in Russia I needed to know the company from the inside. Boeing management asked me to go to Seattle and I lived and worked there for six years. And they rotated me like crazy, so I learned engineering, sales and marketing, business development, commercial aviation services, worked with suppliers. So when I came back to Moscow we developed a strategy to grow the intellectual services, including design, IT, and so on, and how to grow manufacturing of titanium parts and components here.

When I started, the office was many orders of magnitude smaller, and a huge number of our employees working here were Americans. Not anymore. And we have people who are fully integrated, fully trained, local employees in executive positions. The same is true for the engineering, technology, finance, sales and airline support managers and directors. So in 20 years we have been able to create a local Boeing and this is the key to our success in Russia.