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Barack Obama: Laura A. Cordero, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation.

On the recordMay 8, 2011
Laura A. Cordero, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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