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| | USATODAY.com - Shaheen 'critical' to Kerry's political upturn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | When Shaheen took over as national chairman of Kerry's presidential campaign last September, the candidate was lagging badly in the polls, and his advisers were bickering. |
 | | Kerry concedes that Shaheen was "critical" to his turnaround: "She provided great, mature, seasoned leadership when it was needed," he says. |
 | | The daughter of a Missouri Republican ("My father believed in Richard Nixon until the day he died," she says), Shaheen was a college student working a summer at the beach in Maine when she met her future husband, the son of a family of New Hampshire Democrats. |
| www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-01-26-shaheen_x.htm (701 words) |
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