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After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago. That was the limit of my imagination.
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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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