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Noam Scheiber writes that Barack Obama doesn’t really like former aides showing off their closeness to the White House. But that’s not really a problem:

There are more than enough ways to cash in on a White House tour of duty that fall comfortably within the red lines governing Obama’s Washington. No one in the West Wing, from the president on down, would begrudge former colleagues the chance to make a buck so long as a modicum of tact is displayed.

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