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Obama on Boehner call: 'I don't whine'

John Boehner & Barack Obama

President Obama and John Boehner have very different recollections of a tense phone call during the 2011 dispute over the debt ceiling, according to Bob Woodward's new book. They do agree that Obama called Boehner to say he would never sign an agreement that would force a reprise of the debt-ceiling debate before the 2012 election, according to the book The Price of Politics, to be released Tuesday.

Senh: We saw Boehner moan and groan on TV after the agreement was reached on TV.

 

Woodward book details Obama's battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

Woodward book details Obama's battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

The president urgently looked for a way out of the Afghanistan war last year, pressing top military advisers for an exit plan they never gave him, a new book by Bob Woodward reveals.

 

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