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Will A 'Team Of Rivals' Help Obama?

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November 19, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama wants to bring change by recruiting people from across the aisle for his cabinet. Some are comparing this plan to Abraham Lincoln's so-called "Team of Rivals." Madeleine Brand talks to Civil War historian Matthew Pinsker, who says Lincoln's idea to surround himself with political rivals didn't work out so well.

 
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