Obama Camp Looks to Avoid Bush Rift
- By Keith Koffler
- Roll Call Staff
- Nov. 11, 2008, 5:15 p.m.
President-elect Obama’s transition director, John Podesta, called White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten on Tuesday morning to defuse potential fallout over a story in the Washington Post that said Bush had told Obama during a private White House meeting Monday that he would only agree to a new stimulus package if Democrats dropped opposition to moving the Colombia free-trade deal.
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