Obama was also asked why he’d not had a conversation with Hayward. “I have not spoken to him directly, and here’s the reason: because my experience is when you talk to a guy like BP's CEO, he's going to say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions,” Obama told NBC. “We are communicating to him every single day exactly what we expect of him.” Allen stresses in the letter that the oil giant is “responsible for all costs associated with the response to the spill… as well as support long term recovery...
