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Jay Carney: Recognizing he would be attacked by the White House after this came out, he said, I'm old and rich. What can they do me?

On the recordJanuary 11, 2004
Recognizing he would be attacked by the White House after this came out, he said, I'm old and rich. What can they do me?
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Jay Carney

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Jay Carney relays Paul O'Neill's defiant stance against potential backlash from the White House.

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