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thewashingtonnote.com - 11/6/2008

Will Obama's First Term Really Just be a Hybrid of Clinton III and GW Bush III?

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There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. If so, he's pulling a "Donald Rumsfeld" who served as Secretary of Defense twice -- the first stint under Gerald Ford and then of course under George W. Bush. Others in the ...

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