reuters.com - 1/7/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, joined all the living U.S. presidents on Wednesday for a historic meeting at the White House two weeks before the country's next transfer of power. Bush, a Republican, and Obama, a Democrat, met privately for about ...
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