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Ayers reflects on Obama in new afterword to memoir (AP)

 

Published 11/14/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

AP - Bill Ayers, the Vietnam War-era radical who was a campaign headache for Barack Obama, says in a new afterword to his memoir that the two were neighbors and family friends. Ayers' reflections appear in a new paperback release of his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days." The Associated Press obtained a copy of the new afterword Thursday. (link)

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