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  • President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.

    "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.
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