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After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
Jesse Ventura
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Jesse Ventura
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 15
Film Actor
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Minneapolis
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