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	<title><![CDATA[Reconciliation without Truth]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/reconciliation-without-tr_b_144864.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[It is said that Barack Obama has read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, <em>Team of
Rivals</em>, about the war cabinet of Abraham Lincoln. It is said Obama wants to
constitute his cabinet out of former rivals because he liked the book and he
models himself on Lincoln.<p>

Implausible as it sounds, this is the best explanation anyone has given of the
offer of the position of secretary of state to Hillary Clinton. Lincoln took 
William Seward at State, and Seward was a rival indeed, but he...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-12-20T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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