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Friday, April 26
NYT reporter Jodi Kantor's book The Obamas, which goes on sale tomorrow, reveals a lot of interesting clashes within the White House, such as tensions between Mrs. O. with Rahm Emanuel and former press secretary Robert Gibbs, and that Barack used an AOL email address as recently as his Senate days.