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"ref": "1999 November, “UMG May Use Web Site For A&R Purposes”, in CMJ New Music Report, volume 60, number 642, page 9",
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"text": "Assessing the historical record, former presidential aide and student of the Presidency Theodore Sorensen once quipped that some Presidents use the Executive Office “as a farm league, some use it as a source of experts and implementers, and some use it as Elba.\"",
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"ref": "2011, James Emery White, What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary, page 29",
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{
"ref": "2011, Harold C. Relyea, Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview",
"text": "Assessing the historical record, former presidential aide and student of the Presidency Theodore Sorensen once quipped that some Presidents use the Executive Office “as a farm league, some use it as a source of experts and implementers, and some use it as Elba.\"",
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