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Newsweek: A history of bumpy presidential transitions

 

Published 11/5/2008 at msnbc.com: Politics

The good news for Barack Obama: following George W. Bush is only slightly harder than following Jane Fonda at a Veterans of Foreign Wars rally. The bad news: compared with governing, campaigning is easy. A brief history of some of the most troubled presidential transitions. (link)

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