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Obviously, we thought we were going to win [New Hampshire]. We should have listened to what we were feeling instead of what we were told. We had to go up and tell him in the hotel that in fact we were going to lose. And he asked some questions about why we thought that was going to be. He leaned up against a wall and smiled kind of wanly and said, "This thing is going to go on for a while, isn't it?" And we said, "Yeah, it's going to go on for a while." David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist, on losing the New Hampshire primary to Hillary

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President BARACK OBAMA, at NATO talks involving over 50 world leaders, describing the withdrawal of 130,000 combat troops from Afghanistan, planned for the end of 2014
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