And he did reiterate his pledge to close Guantánamo.
He backed off, under pressure, from his pledge to close Guantánamo.
Those provisions have effectively blocked President Obama from fulfilling his pledge to close the notorious facility.
President Obama's first executive order was a pledge to close Guantánamo.
Mr. Obama's pledge to close the prison was doomed by Republican opposition.
Why has Barack Obama failed to honour his 2008 pledge to close Guantánamo?
He began his presidency with a pledge to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year.
The human rights groups so encouraged by Obama's pledge to close Guantánamo smelled a bait-and-switch.
Obama did, after all, pledge to close the detention camp back in 2007 (114 prisoners still remain).
Mr. Hollande has suggested only a gradual drawdown of just one-third of the country's installed capacity, despite his pledge to close the Fessenheim plant.
This week, Geraldo Alckmin, who is seeking re-election as Sao Paulo's governor, fulfilled a pledge to close Carandiru, a squalid and escape-prone jail.
