“When the doors opened on Air Force One, the president was greeted by the stifling Texas heat, and a handshake from one of his biggest critics, Gov. Rick Perry, who had hoped to deliver a four-page letter pleading for more help from the feds on border security,” KVUE-TV reports.
But Obama “waved the governor’s letter off to one of his top aides, Valerie Jarrett.”
Said Perry: “I was surprised that we couldn’t find a time while he was in town to sit down and speak a little bit longer.”


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