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There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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