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For Some on Obama Team, Capital Is Close to Home
washingtonpost.com - 12/14/2008
For Some on Obama Team, Capital Is Close to Home
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Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 14, 2008; Page C01
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Close to Home
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Obama's Team of Locals
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... WashPost: As president, Obama will be surrounded by at least some people who have long called D.C. home.       ...

The Sunday Word: All in the Family
The Caucus — ... group’s ties, formed over more than a decade by births and deaths, Scrabble games, barbecues and vacations, but also by shared beliefs about race, success and responsibility. Ms. Kantor writes that the three were recently drawing up an “elaborate visiting schedule that will bring Hyde Park to Washington, so the nation’s new first family can have a little taste of home.” And the Washington Post reports that while some Obama advisers will be making the trek from Chicago to Washington, others already call the nation’s capitol home : “As president, Obama will be surrounded by at ...

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