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The TV Watch: It Seemed Familiar, and Yet So Different

 
Mr. Obama’s first prime-time presidential news conference had an eerie similarity to the first one held by George W. Bush in 2001. > (link)

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President Obama’s first prime-time presidential news conference had an eerie similarity to the first one held by George W. Bush in 2001. >