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Books Podcast: Ben Rhodes and what it was like to work for Obama

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In this week’s Spectator Books, I’m talking to a man who has spent more time on Air Force One than even Piers Morgan: President Obama’s former foreign policy speechwriter and deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, author of new memoir The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House.

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