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Barack Obama: Few of us can imagine what John endured during the days he spent in that lonely prison cell.

On the recordJanuary 18, 2009
Few of us can imagine what John endured during the days he spent in that lonely prison cell.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks by the President-Elect Honoring Senator John McCain at the Bipartisan Dinner

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