Obama receives briefing From Vice President-Elect Biden on Southwest Asia trip
U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) (R) speaks, as President-elect Barack Obama (C) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (L) listen, during a meeting regarding a recent trip to Southwest Asia at the transition office in Washington on January 14, 2009. Biden and Graham, who have recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Pakistan, briefed Obama on their diplomatic findings. (UPI Photo/Alex Wong/POOL)
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