It's The Old Shell Game.

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And Now The Sequence Of Events In No Particular Order.

What Separated Ed Murrow From The Rest Of The Pack Was Courage.

I Read The Book [my Life By Bill Clinton] Completely. And I Think It Compares Very Favorably With Ulysses S. Grant's Gold Standard Of Presidential Autobiographies.

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