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New York Times Washington chief on Obama's inheritance

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President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office and into the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 9, 2010.
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David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, discusses his book, "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power." Sanger was a guest at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, where he talked with former Vice President Walter Mondale and political science professor Larry Jacobs.

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President Obama
President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office and into the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 9, 2010.
Susan Walsh/ASSOCIATED PRESS