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Byline: Mark Whitaker

Here's one of many harsh things about running for president: it forces candidates to answer for all sorts of decisions they made before they had any idea they'd be campaigning for the nation's highest office. When George W. Bush pulled strings to serve in the National Guard, then barely completed his service, he had no inkling he'd one day have...

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