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This exchange comes from a joint press conference in Japan. President Obama was asked a question by a reporter from Fuji television:
Reporter: President Obama, you are a proponent of a nuclear free world, and you said, if possible, you would like to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office. Do you have this desire? And what is your understanding of the historical meaning of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Do you think it was the right decision?…
Obama:…Now, obviously Japan has unique perspective on the issue of nuclear weapons as a consequence of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that I’m sure helps to motivate the Prime Minister’s deep interest in this issue. I certainly would be honored, it would be meaningful for me to visit those two cities in the future. I don’t have immediate travel plans, but it’s something that would be meaningful to me. You had one more question, and I’m not sure I remember it. Was it North Korea?
Reporter: Whether or not you believe that the U.S. dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — it was right?
Obama: No, there were three sets of questions, right? You asked about North Korea?
Operation Downfall was a massive plan for the American and Allied forces invasion of Japan in order to bring the war in the Pacific to a close not more than one year after the surrender of Germany in May 1945. If you would have been one of the tens or hundreds of thousands of American casualties from Operation Downfall, you can thank your lucky stars that the President was named Truman, not Obama. (And if your father or grandfather would have been one of those casualties, you might not even be here today, so you can that Truman for that too.) HT: Powerline