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Article: Johnson resigns from Obama's vice presidential vetting team
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- June 11, 2008
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Jim Johnson, the most experienced hand guiding Democrat Barack Obama's vice presidential search, stepped down Wednesday as Republican criticism of his home mortgage deals became a distraction for a candidate who eschews Washington insider influence.
Johnson's resignation leaves the job of vetting Obama's No. 2 at least temporarily in the hands of two other prominent Democratic attorneys who had been working with him on the search _ former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy.
The Obama campaign declined to answer whether the Illinois senator would replace Johnson, who also led the vetting for Democratic nominees John ...