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Article: Clinton and Obama Conciliatory at AIPAC; The day after he clinched the nomination, Obama looks toward the general election.(American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 4, 2008
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Byline: Nikki Schwab
It was the morning after the heated primary season had come to an end, the Democrats finally had their nominee. Sen. Barack Obama clinched the nomination, gathering up enough delegates and superdelegates to announce his victory on the day of the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota.
And thanks to the convenient scheduling of a large and important conference on Israel, the presumptive nominee and the onetime Democratic front-runner, Sen. Hillary Clinton, would speak back to back in Washington, D.C., at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference.
Obama spoke first and was greeted fondly by the ...