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THE PRESIDENT WHO LOVED

President Obama embraces Vice President Joe Biden after surprising him with the Medal of Freedom on Jan. 12

IT’S AN OLD STORY: A WISE MAN WALKS INTO THE KINGDOM of an angry and mistrustful king and says, “Go out and find me one truly good man.”

The king puts on a disguise and for the next year talks to every person he meets, not only in his own kingdom, but in all the neighboring kingdoms, and in the end he returns and reports that this mythical creature, this truly

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