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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Steven Thomma / The Bulletin
December 7, 2008
Franklin D. Roosevelt loved to have his aides argue in front of him, the better to see all sides before picking one himself.
Richard Nixon tried the same approach, didn’t like it and stopped it. Bill Clinton, too, wanted to hear a lot of voices but sometimes....