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While campaigning for president, Barack Obama repeatedly pledged that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House.".(The Week)(Brief article)

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While campaigning for president, Barack Obama repeatedly pledged that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House." With the election over, he soon learned that excluding people who are knowledgeable in their fields simply because they made money off that knowledge is no way to build a staff. So he set his assistants to work manufacturing loopholes, and by late January National Journal reported that Obama had "nominated two recent ...

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