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Barry Goldwater once said, I'd rather be right than president. I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

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Howard Dean
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 17
Former Governor Of Vermont
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East Hampton
New York
Howard Brush Dean III
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