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Joe Biden: “He wanted to be a sort of chief ambassador to the hill, a counselor in chief, as he told Larry King last evening.”

On the recordDecember 22, 2008
He wanted to be a sort of chief ambassador to the hill, a counselor in chief, as he told Larry King last evening.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Biden's aspirations for his role in the administration.

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