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Bill Press: John Bolton and me

It’s one of the first political adages I heard: “Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

And it’s proved true on many occasions, like 1996 when, as Democratic state chair of California, I campaigned with California’s Republican chair, against Proposition 198, which allowed voters of any party to vote for any candidate in primary elections. That measure passed, only to be declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court two years later.

But the “strange bedfellows” adage never proved more true than it

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