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Former Lobbyist Named Biden’s Chief of Staff

 
President-elect Barack Obama named Ronald A. Klain, a former lobbyist and Clinton White House lawyer, as chief of staff to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. > (link)

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