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... presidents . I'm a reporter who goes to work every morning to cover the president of the United States . I have one ... president's assistants and get their views . A reporter learns a lot that way . But they weren't elected to run the ...
... presidents . I'm a reporter who goes to work every morning to cover the president of the United States . I have one ... president's assistants and get their views . A reporter learns a lot that way . But they weren't elected to run the ...
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... president's aides , straining against the noise to hear the dialogue , looked stricken . Several of us reporters looked at each other with open mouths . Here the president had just not only contradicted himself on the point he had set ...
... president's aides , straining against the noise to hear the dialogue , looked stricken . Several of us reporters looked at each other with open mouths . Here the president had just not only contradicted himself on the point he had set ...
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... president's moving speech at Pointe du Hoc on the fortieth anni- versary of D day . Deaver selected the spot where the president was to stand , looking over the steep cliff that the rangers had climbed back on June 6 , 1944 , a spot ...
... president's moving speech at Pointe du Hoc on the fortieth anni- versary of D day . Deaver selected the spot where the president was to stand , looking over the steep cliff that the rangers had climbed back on June 6 , 1944 , a spot ...
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