U.S. President Barack Obama reached out to a number of business leaders last week about the so-called “fiscal cliff,” and Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook was among those on the president’s short list.
Cook was one of a handful of CEOs who received a phone call from Obama about the government’s budget woes set to go into effect at the end of 2012. A White House official told CNN that the conversations were part of the president’s “outreach on the need to find a balanced deficit-reduction solution that protects the middle class and continues to move our economy forward.”