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Published 1/8/2009 by Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly at Wash Post Obama Administration
President-elect Barack Obama is assembling a new and influential cadre of counselors just steps from the Oval Office whose power to direct domestic policy will rival, if not exceed, the authority of his Cabinet.
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