Ex-radical calls Obama a 'family friend'

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Nov. 14, 2008

But Ayers says conservatives wove a 'dishonest narrative' during campaign. In a new afterword to his memoir, "Fugitive Days," 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the controversy over their...

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